Alan Hawkshaw in today's Daily Mail

[George Geddes]

Short item about Alan Hawkshaw today:

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish ... 1722807814

George

[tim.cooper5]

Well I never knew he wrote those tunes.

Tim

[drakula63]

Well I never knew he wrote those tunes.

Tim

And, of course, The Dave Allen at Large theme.

[drakula63]

Way 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.

[drakula63]

...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.