[…] two or three lessons in it but I’ve never been able to play an instrument, and I regret that in a way… But strangely enough, because I’m not a musician, I actually found that it’s an irony in a way… I found that not being a musician helpful in producing pop music because I didn’t have this mu[…]
[…]ight. And my story is I getting husbandry data. I'm making this up. Now I'm not but there was a certain amount of sympathetic tapping from orchestral musicians who I subsequently discovered were far from. Far from difficult people if they didn't think you were being autocratic or haughty about thing[…]
[…]ally a piano teacher. Then came the great moment of big question arose, was I musical enough to take music up as a profession. So I was sent to a top musician in Northern Ireland, Norman Haye, a composer and Critic. And he put me through my paces and wrote a very nice letter to my mother which I fou[…]
[…] 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 Academy of Musi[…]
[…]dache, a Romanian conductor they were using. And I remember they all arrived in army lorries, it was it was all a bit rough you know, for these super musicians who arrived for a special concert here in Hamburg. We used to do everything from the dance band staffers programme engineers to the Berlin P[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] gives a remarkable insight into the life of a cinema musician. BECTU History Project - Interview No. 40 [Copyright BECTU] […]
[…]unt of what they called needle time which meant that they could only have a certain amount of records played because they wanted music played by live musicians and that was a deal they made with the Musicians’ Union. (Time 31:41) I quite understand why the Musicians’ Union did that but […]
[…]money for big built scenery to, to get the effects, you know, to make a, compose a picture with a piece of something. And it was Carol and these four musicians, I can remember Dennis, Dennis Wilson on piano, Kevin somebody on drums, Dave Goldberg on guitar, Tim Bell on bass and we had a guest each w[…]
[…]ep doing that.DS: No, John P will put me right.JPH: Your parents were living in Wandsworth.DS: Oh yes, yes. Because my father was Charles Shadwell, a musician, a musical director. He was MD Musical Director at the Putney Hippodrome at that time, so that’s why I was born in that area. But s[…]
