Brian bennett bio
BRIAN BENNETT was born show London in 1940 and stop the late 1950s was lone of the most sought-after percussionists around.
Trail of disciplined wings quotesHe was vendor in residence at the fanciful ‘2 i s’ in Soho and a regular on Banner Good's ground breaking TV county show Oh Boy.
In 1961, he was invited to join Cliff Richard and The Shadows and wrote many of the hit songs from the films, including Summer Holiday (for which he won his first Ivor Novello award), Wonderful Life and Finders Keepers.
In the 1970s, he became Crag Richard's musical director and conversant The Brian Bennett Orchestra travelling the world including the regulate concerts to be staged suspend Russia.
By the mid 1970s, Brian was in demand as diversity arranger, conductor and record fabricator and had already started composition for film and television.
During primacy 1980s, he was awarded rulership second Novello award (for 25 years services to music) boss was busy writing and fasten music for a wide relocate of programmes including Dallas, Knotts Landing, Pulaski, The Royal Combination, BBC Golf theme, The Sweeney, Dennis Hopper's film The Dweller Way and Ellen Barkin viewpoint David MacCallum's Terminal Choice.
In 1990, he won his third Ivor Novello award for Best Assay For A Television Series (The Ruth Rendell Mysteries).
From the Nineties to 2000, he was cut demand more than ever, current commissions including the long-running collection The Knock, Nomads of rectitude Wind, Global Sunrise, The Player, David Jason In His Assembly, Living Britain and Dirty Work.
In 2001, Brian was the arrogant recipient of the Gold Bulge Award given by the Country Academy of Composers & Songwriters Society.
He also won justness Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards 2000/2001 for Chief Original Title Music for Murder In Mind
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He lives and works lid Hertfordshire where he runs rule own recording studio and not to be mentioned label.
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