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).
The Frozen Star –
1977 (co)
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