Alan Parker

b. 1944, Matlock, Derbyshire, Britain. At once an associate of Blue Mink, Alan Parker determined early in his profession that more productive rewards lay beyond the superstar pop celebrity circuit. Like a program guitarist within the 60s, Parker performed on materials by Kitty Stevens, Joe Cocker, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny And Cher, the Dave Clark Five as well as the Walker Brothers (including ‘The Sunlight Ain’t Gonna Sparkle Anymore’) among numerous others. In 1969 he created Blue Mink with fellow ‘program elite’ performers Roger Make and Madeline Bell. That they had their perhaps most obviously achievement with ‘Melting Container’, however the group quickly broke up because the specific members came back to profitable playing and composing projects. Within the 70s Parker was among the studio room musicians providing the Bay Town Rollers making use of their graph fodder, and he was also an associate of CCS, whose edition of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Entire Lotta Like’ became the theme melody to THE SURFACE OF THE Pops. He also obtained a high 5 strike in 1972 as an associate from the Congregation, with ‘Softly Whispering I REALLY LIKE You’. As well as previous Blue Mink colleague Herbie Plants he done the classes for David Bowie’s Gemstone Canines in 1974. Nevertheless, right now Parker was also spending a lot of his period working on tv theme music, including that for Consider MY PARTNER and Angels, in addition to advertisements, notably the famous ‘Beanz Meanz Heinz’ jingle. He also published over 40 albums well worth of ‘collection music’ for tv. In the first 80s he started composing music for movies, including Jaws 3-D. Within the middle-90s he came back to tv function, composing the theme music to BBC tv program, Rhodes.