![]() He’d send people up to Central TV and Anglia TV, take the new product up, buy them all lunch… have personal contact with the client. A fade, and what he called a button end – a brass “dah!” Then he’d just say, “Nice writing. ” It was usually eight, sometimes more, because he’d want an alternate end on some titles. There would be fine wines, and Robin would waffle on, but when it came down to the job at hand… “We’ve got to get eight titles. That was the KPM sound.īB: We had long lunches where Robin used to brief us on about five albums. Robin’s vision was to add a heavy rhythm section. We used brass sections – usually, when you heard brass sections it’d be jazzy and a bit tippity-tap, a bit light. We formed this little band of session guys: Duncan Lamont, Steve Gray, Dave Richmond, myself and Clive Hicks. ![]() He was a great pianist, and he said that Robin Philips at KPM was looking for a five-piece band that could play and write for each other. Tell me how you both got into writing library music?īB: I met Steve Gray doing session work. Brian’s son, Warren, was there, too, as he has taken the baton and continues to write library tracks – the Bennett dynasty were in conversation together for the first time. But we weren’t there to talk Shads – I wanted to hear about his days as one of the kings of library music, releasing stuff on KPM and Bruton that is now revered in hip-hop circles (Drake, Kanye West and Nas have all sampled him). ![]() As I’ve loudly mentioned before, I’m a Shadows fan, and I was lucky enough to recently sit down with drummer Brian Bennett.
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