Alan Hawkshaw in today's Daily Mail
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2017 3:22 pmWell I never knew he wrote those tunes.
Tim
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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2017 10:23 pmtim.cooper5 wrote:Well I never knew he wrote those tunes.
Tim
And, of course, The Dave Allen at Large theme.
Re: Alan Hawkshaw in today's Daily Mail
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:59 amWay back in 2012, I had the great pleasure of talking to Alan at great length about his career, with emphasis on his TV and library composing. Now, I don't know when or even if this footage will ever find its way onto the telly, as planned, but I've done a couple of grabs from the video.
1) This is Alan playing, at my request, the theme to 'Exodus'. I am the headless body standing in the background. There are no words to describe how this experience felt.
2) A great shot of Alan at his old mixing desk, which he told me he bought in 1979. Sadly, I made a complete fool of myself when he asked me to guess how much it had cost. I was several thousands of pounds out!
As a matter of interest, in the background of the 2nd shot is the 'tower' containing all the electronics for his Synclavier keyboard. Sadly, we never got to hear this working!
Such a nice guy and a genius too.
And now a doctor of music to boot.
1) This is Alan playing, at my request, the theme to 'Exodus'. I am the headless body standing in the background. There are no words to describe how this experience felt.
2) A great shot of Alan at his old mixing desk, which he told me he bought in 1979. Sadly, I made a complete fool of myself when he asked me to guess how much it had cost. I was several thousands of pounds out!
As a matter of interest, in the background of the 2nd shot is the 'tower' containing all the electronics for his Synclavier keyboard. Sadly, we never got to hear this working!
Such a nice guy and a genius too.
And now a doctor of music to boot.
Re: Alan Hawkshaw in today's Daily Mail
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 5:55 pm...and here is a picture of some of Alan's footage being viewed on a monitor in an editing suite.
I hope this project will see fruition eventually, as, as well as Alan, it features Brian Bennett, Francis Monkman and Lynsey de Paul, all talking about the art of writing music to picture. I am so sad that Lysney never lived to see it. She spoke very highly of Brian, Francis and Alan.
I hope this project will see fruition eventually, as, as well as Alan, it features Brian Bennett, Francis Monkman and Lynsey de Paul, all talking about the art of writing music to picture. I am so sad that Lysney never lived to see it. She spoke very highly of Brian, Francis and Alan.