John Cameron

b. 1944, Britain. Cameron performed piano from age six and in his teenagers performed and organized semi-professionally. While learning music at Cambridge School he meanwhile performed jazz piano in night clubs and composed chamber music. Afterwards, while employed in London night clubs, he was asked by record maker Mickie Most to set up ‘Sunlight Superman’ for Donovan. Cameron also made up ‘If I Idea You’d Ever Modification Your Brain’, a 60s strike for Cilla Dark and a Western hit nearly four decades later on for Agnetha Fältskog. He had written library music applied to television advertisements and theatre series and somewhere else. A significant tune out of this period is definitely his ‘Fifty percent Neglected Daydreams’. In these and old age Cameron’s musical companions frequently included mentioned jazz titles: trumpeters Harry Beckett, Henry Lowther, Kenny Wheeler, trombonists Don Lusher, saxophonists Tony Coe, Tubby Hayes, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Harold McNair, Danny Moss, Ronnie Ross, Jimmy Skidmore, Kathy Stobart, Ray Warleigh, pianist Alan Branscombe, bass players Herbie Blossoms, Danny Thompson, drummers Tony Carr, Barry Morgan, vibraphonist Expenses Le Sage, and vocalist Norma Winstone. As an arranger, Cameron was effective with bands such as for example Hot Chocolates (‘Every 1’s A Champion’ and ‘You Sexy Thing’), and Heatwave, along with music artists as varied as Julie Felix, Stan Dorfman, Maynard Ferguson, Salena Jones, and José Carreras. His eight-part placing of Edward Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ was included on the bestselling Agnus Dei. In 1970, at Many’s prompting, Cameron was co-founder of CCS (Collective Awareness Culture) with guitarist Alexis Korner and vocalist Peter Thorup. The music group recorded several strikes including ‘Walkin’’, ‘Touch Transforms On The Drinking water’ and ‘Entire Lotta Like’. The last mentioned was useful for several years because the starting theme for BBC tv’s THE SURFACE OF THE Pops. Various other BBC television designs were a day and Crimewatch UK. Cameron’s film function includes organizing Donovan’s designs for Poor Cow (1967), while his ratings consist of Kes (1969), Dark Beauty (1970), with Lionel Bart, the Oscar-nominated SOME Course (1973), and David Essex’s Sterling silver Wish Racer (1980). Afterwards films include Small House OVER THE Prairie (2004). Cameron’s function in musical theater includes Les Misérables (all ratings from 1979), which brought him a fresh York Drama Table prize in 1986 as well as the National Broadway Theater Prize in 2002. In 2005 emerged The Considerably Pavilions, Alfie, The Musical (in cooperation with Dougray Scott), along with a calendar year afterwards Zorro, The Musical, using the Gypsy Kings.