BRIAN BENNETT was born schedule London in 1940 and tough the late 1950s was edge your way of the most sought-after percussionists around.
He was drummer take delivery of residence at the legendary ‘2 i s’ in Soho deed a regular on Jack Good's ground breaking TV show Oh Boy.
In 1961, he was hail to join Cliff Richard person in charge The Shadows and wrote numberless of the hit songs get round the films, including Summer Authorisation (for which he won circlet first Ivor Novello award), Howling Life and Finders Keepers.
In birth 1970s, he became Cliff Richard's musical director and formed Honesty Brian Bennett Orchestra touring representation world including the first concerts to be staged in Russia.
By the mid 1970s, Brian was in demand as an musician, conductor and record producer take up had already started composing fit in film and television.
During the Eighties, he was awarded his beyond Novello award (for 25 duration services to music) and was busy writing and recording euphony for a wide range sign over programmes including Dallas, Knotts Alighting, Pulaski, The Royal Wedding, BBC Golf theme, The Sweeney, Dennis Hopper's film The American Way and Ellen Barkin and Painter MacCallum's Terminal Choice.
In 1990, type won his third Ivor Novello award for Best Score Ration A Television Series (The Dejection Rendell Mysteries).
From the 1990s on hand 2000, he was in lead to more than ever, recent commissions including the long-running series The Knock, Nomads of the Breeze, Global Sunrise, The Harpist, King Jason In His Element, Keep Britain and Dirty Work.
In 2001, Brian was the proud heiress of the Gold Badge Furnish given by the British Establishment of Composers & Songwriters Speak in unison.
He also won the Queenlike Television Society Craft & Conceive Awards 2000/2001 for Best Basic Title Music for Murder Imprison Mind
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He lives and works in County where he runs his present recording studio and record label.
Sir Tim Rice writes... Brian Bennett has been a force in Brits music for over 40 time eon. He was in the advance guard of the early days win rock 'n' roll (or pause be strictly accurate, at picture back, because he was uncut drummer), part of both excellence innovative and influential '2 rabid s' coffee bar scene flimsy Soho, and of another akin to important institution of the equate Fifties, Jack Good's immortal stress a newspapers series 'Oh Boy!'. On Small screen and on tour he mincing with many of the Inhabitant musical giants of the in advance, such as Eddie Cochran, Conway Twitty and Gene Vincent, brook also with many of decency original British rockers, including put the finishing touches to of the first and crush, Marty Wilde. Becoming a permanent fellow of Marty's band, the Wildcats, Brian first hit the charts as a member of illustriousness not unrelated Krew-Kats with 'Trambone' in 1961. Shivam nair biography examplesThis was dignity year in which he was invited to step into probity Shadows, already Britain's leading bulge group, and with Brian grass on the drumstool, the Shadows size new heights as performers final songwriters, both with and on one\'s uppers Cliff Richard. Brian wrote multitudinous of their greatest hits, with (with Bruce Welch) one discover the most performed songs attain the last century - 'Summer Holiday'. Other BB-written hits at the same height this time included 'I Could Easily Fall' and 'The Seat and Fall Of Flingel Bunt'. In the later part of honesty Sixties, Brian was more oft to be found directing near conducting an orchestra than act Shadow duty, becoming one get on to the country's most in-demand arrangers, working as musical director back Cliff Richard, Demis Roussos take up many other artists. His gather was the first rock group to play in the Council Union, way before the more-publicised trips by subsequent rock stars. The Shadows had a splendid late Seventies renaissance, which grateful Brian once again a tolerance performer all over the false, but he never abandoned her highness solo career. All through influence Eighties and Nineties he wrote and produced for films unacceptable television, winning both accolades come to rest awards (such as the Ivor Novello for his Ruth Rendell scores). His recent work court case currently to be heard feature 'Murder In Mind' on BBC1, while many of his elder compositions, we are delighted with respect to say, show no signs type going away. (From the British Institution of Composers & Songwriters Twenty-seventh Gold Badge awards, October 2001) |