Christopher Hutton
Christopher William Clayton Hutton (1893–1965) a soldier, airman, journalist and inventor, was recruited as an intelligence officer to work for MI9, a branch of the British Military Intelligence, during the Second World War. Known as 'Clutty' to his friends, he was engaged towards the end of 1939 by the War Office to work under Major (later Brigadier) Norman Crockatt, in order to set up and run operations to create and distribute escape and evasion aids for Allied servicemen. Hutton's small team identified suitable manufacturers, ensured supplies and devised methods by which the concealed aids could be sent to prisoner of war camps.
Spirit Touches Ground
Clayton-Felt finished the final mixing and production of "Spirit Touches Ground" in early December 1999, just one week before being hospitalized with what turned out to be choriocarcinoma (a rare form of testicular cancer with the worst prognosis of all germ-cell cancers); he died at the age of 32 less than a month later. Universal relinquished its claim on his unreleased music while Clayton-Felt was hospitalized in a coma, his family whispering the long-sought news into his ear. Led by Laura Baker, Clayton-Felt's sister, a network of friends and fans lobbied for the promotion and distribution of this long-delayed material, eventually organizing for the album completed shortly before his death to be released under the Dreamworks label in 2002.