[…]icine and go to Oxford. But he couldn't stand the sight of blood, which was a little bit against the medicine. His father was also very, very keen on music was a musician loved music. And he obviously took that side of the family rather than the medical side. And after the war, went to the Royal Aca[…]
[…]a very bad one, they didn’t know in those days, they had no idea of who was good and who was bad, and he used to do their band parts he was a trained musician but he wasn’t a very good teacher. He had no real interest in teaching because he used to have his tea while I was there, I remember it so we[…]
[…]all very much, my mother was very wise, I wasn't really interested in old piano pieces but I could play very quickly by ear, so she stopped me having music lessons and then I became very interested. And I had a band.John Taylor: What kind of band.Jimmy Gilbert: Not until I was about 13 or 14. I play[…]
[…]hat was anti Jewish scholar anti semitism going on there, too. Ended up in Berlin cut long story short, and he was very talented. He came from a very musical background. As you say his father was a was a baritone. His sister was a concert pianist, and his brother is beat Misha being the younger of a[…]
[…]imes before 99 okay. Where were you born?Unknown Speaker 0:34 Plymouth in Devon,Unknown Speaker 0:36 and were you born into a musical family?Speaker 2 0:39 No, no, my dad was a policeman, and he was actually in the London Metropolitan Police, and in those days the[…]
[…]f German, because Strasbourg always changed hands every two or three times in 100 years, depending who was on the father side, Viennese, which is the musical side with part family, and they lived in Vienna for 400 years. And my great great grandfather came to this country beginning of a century. And[…]
[…]ow business background,Bill Cotton Jr: No he was born in, he was born in Westminster, of a family of 10, and the only thing he had which was remotely musical was that he was a choir boy at St Margarets, he was actually a choir boy at St Johns but he used to sing at St Margarets for weddings and fune[…]
[…]insulted with cheap programming. The cinema was Rank’s Roadshow Theatre in the Capital and had recently enjoyed a near two-year run with THE SOUND OF MUSIC. When not playing the separate performance high ticket advance booked shows it would revert to normal release product on continuous performances[…]
[…]ve just noticed, we were talking about it the other day, that films I’ve seen recently, I’m not hearing the dialogue; I’m hearing the most marvellous music, and fantastic effects, and no dialogue. Because, Dolby apparently isn’t really kind to dialogue, it’s great for everything else.
Thank God y[…]
[…]effects like the BBC boys took them all up didn’t they? And I became the effects man there and then I graduated in the sound department, in the music recording room I took over the boom and helped to mix and all that and when it got to the dubbing stage, which was about two channels, I can alw[…]
