In May 1991 Braithwaite told '' The Canberra Times '' Bevan Hannan that he had met Hussey about two years before they worked on '' Edge '' . Braithwaite had heard some demos of Hussey 's work and " in 1987 I approached him to produce the album and after quite a lot of hassling he said yes " . In the following year Clinton Porteous of '' Rolling Stone '' described how " Braithwaite was trying to make a comeback ... and record companies urged him to use a name producer ... he insisted on the untried Hussey . ' I saw someone who was a little bit hesitant ... a little shy but who was really talented ... he really did seem to care about the music ... he does n't do things half heartedly . ' Braithwaite 's instincts paid off : '' Edge '' went to Number One , relaunching his career . " By February 1989 Hussey was in London working on James ' second solo album , '' Hard Reyne '' , he co-produced the album with John Hudson . By April that year Hussey was married to Elisabeth Reyne , younger sister of the Reyne brothers . Besides song writing Hussey also provided keyboards and programming . Whitfield described how " the lyrics ( once you can understand them ) are not exactly brilliant and lack much of the depth which Reyne displayed in his Crawl days " nevertheless Hussey made a " big contribution " to the album . The album peaked at No . 7 in June while Braithwaite 's '' Edge '' was still at No . 1 . Whilst in London , Hussey received his first ARIA Award nomination , in the category of Producer of the Year , at the ARIA Music Awards of 1989 for '' Edge ''
ARIA Music Awards of 1989
ARIA Music Awards of 1989
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