There was an excellent documentary on Radio 4 this Saturday just gone about TV themes. Alan Hawkshaw was interviewed and he mentioned how a (still) much heard piece of music he wrote appeared on a trailer for the 1985 Clint Eastwood film Pale Rider.
Have a look at the video attached and see what you think.
It sort of works doesn’t it?
I am pretty sure that the same gentleman composed the Countdown theme tune. And this is his daughter :
He did indeed write the countdown theme. Very nice chap, worked on a project with him once.
Brian Bennett, the drummer for The Shadows, did the bong at the end. Not a lot of people know that.
Nice.
You’ve got to love Alan Hawkshaw.
Looks like he’s lost his way in this great live version of the Grandstand theme but then drops in a great Hammond solo.
MC Hawkshaw