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About Brian Bennett
Hometown
London, England
Born
February 9, 1940
Genre
Easy Listening
British musician Brian Bennett has led a multi-tiered career, renowned as both a longtime drummer for rock & roll institution the Shadows as well as a top arranger and an award-winning film and television composer. While still a Shadow, he branched off with the jazzy instrumental solo LP Change of Direction (1967) and began composing music for television and films during the 1970s, as well as music library companies. Bennett ventured into disco and funk with his 1978 album Voyage and other projects such as Heat Exchange. He has won three Ivor Novello Awards, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2004. Operating his own state-of-the-art home-recording facility, Honeyhill Studios, he has remained active into his eighties, continuing to work with Alan Hawkshaw (the two released the album Full Circle in 2018) as well as his son, fellow composer and Shadow Warren Bennett.
Brian Bennett has also released music as a member of Collage, Wally Asp, Heat Exchange, The Shadows, Brian Bennett Band, Thunder Company, and The Krew Kats.
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