Sunday, March 22, 2020

Who Are Those Composers ~ Alan Parker



Alan Frederick Parker was born on August 26 1944 in Matlock, Derbyshire, England. He was trained by Julian Bream at London’s Royal Academy of Music. He then had a successful career as session guitarist starting in the late 1960s, and played with Blue Mink. The Congregation, Collective Consciousness Society and Serge Gainsbourg.
Much of his session work has gone uncredited, but he has been named as the electric guitarist on Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man", the Walker Brothers' "No Regrets", David Bowie's "1984", Mike Batt's "The Ride to Agadir" and the Top of the Pops theme music version of "Whole Lotta Love".

Parker's later work comprised compositions for film and television. His television work includes ‘Angels’, ‘Minder’, ‘The Glory Boys’, ‘Dempsey and Makepeace’, ‘French Fields’, ‘Red Fox’, ITN’s ‘News At Ten’, and the BBC series ‘Walking with Cavemen’ and ‘Coast’. His film scores include “Jaws 3-D” (1983), “American Gothic” (1988), “What's Eating Gilbert Grape” (1993) and “Alex Rider: Stormbreaker” (2006).

Parker is also known to have owned Jimi Hendrix's Epiphone acoustic guitar, which was given to him by Hendrix in March 1970.


PARKER, Alan (Alan Frederick Parker) [8/26/1944, Matlock, Derbyshire, England, U.K. -     ] – composer, conductor, arranger, songwriter, musician (guitar).
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