Peter Asher

Peter Asher is an English musician and record producer, known first as half of the 1960s duo Peter and Gordon. The duo's harmony pop reached number one with "A World Without Love" (1964), written by Lennon and McCartney. As A&R director at Apple Records he signed James Taylor, and he went on to manage and produce Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, winning Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year in 1977 and 1989.