Huston arrived in Wallasey, near Liverpool, toward the end of World War II from an orphanage in North Wales.
[1][3] The Undertakers released a string of singles in the early 1960s and toured widely, but had little chart success.
Initially he toured as a member of Joey Dee and the Starliters, before linking up with The Young Rascals to start a new career as a record producer and engineer.
[1][3] As engineer, he won a gold disc for the Rascals' "Groovin'", and in the late 1960s engineered a string of successful albums with The Who, Led Zeppelin, Todd Rundgren, Patti LaBelle and H.P.
He worked particularly extensively with Eric Burdon and War on their albums through the 1970s and 1980s, winning a Grammy Nomination for The World Is a Ghetto (1973).