Reply To: Meet the composers!
When I was living in London (1987 to 1990), I went for a pint or six in The Red Lion pub in Ealing. There was live jazz on in a dark corner, and at the end of one piece, the lead (don’t know who he was) asked for a round of applause for the band members – “…and Derek Wadsworth on trombone”. I thought, “there can’t be that many Derek Wadsworths playing trombones”, so when he went to the bar for a pint I asked him if he was THE Derek Wadsworth “…who did SPACE: 1999”. When he admitted that he was indeed that chap, I went into a long, boring (for him) spiel about music for science fiction films. It’s funny how we (or just I?) imagine that all musicians and composers who dabble in the medium are as much fans of the stuff as we are. I was going on about how ALIEN was such a brilliant score when I noticed that his eyes had begun to glaze over, so I eventually left him in peace with his pint.
From the few words he got in edgeways, he came across as a soft spoken, polite and rather shy big guy. Another Yorkshireman incidentally.