Laurie Johnson(I)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Producer
Prolific British composer who has written scores for over four hundred
film and television series. Very much of the old school of film
composers, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and his
scores reflect this classical training in their complexity. The
trademark Johnson sound is the unusual use of strings with interesting
chord combinations in frequent use. Perhaps the most famous themes that
Lauire Johnson is best known for is
The Professionals (1977)
(1977-83) and
The Avengers (1961) and
The New Avengers (1976)
soundtracks. These works combined classical orchestration with the
"funky" sound of the time, often using wah-wah guitar and "walking"
funk bass lines with a full orchestra playing along. Since 1974, Laurie
Johnson has also jointly-owned the production companies that produced
these programmes, the most famous being "Avengers Mark One Productions
Ltd", who produced the shows mentioned earlier. Still working hard into
his Seventies, Laurie Johnson lives in Stanmore, Middlesex, England,
UK.
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