I don't know why this wasn't the biggest news ever but Angela Morley (formerly Wally Stott) died on January 14th, 2009.
Angela did a million things, most notably she was musical director for The Goon Show, composed the music for Watership Down, helped John Williams out with the soundtrack to Star Wars. More pertinent to this board, she was responsible for all the best orchestral arrangements on Scott Walker's first four solo albums, (she did "It's Raining Today"), as well as Dusty Springfield ("The Look Of Love") and Shirley Bassey.
― Owen Pallett, Sunday, 18 January 2009 01:58 (seventeen years ago)
Blimey - I remember watching 30th Century Man with my mates and one of them saying they'd rather have heard more about her than the various talking heads eulogising Scott 4. Which is a fair point - I really didn't know what she'd done outside of those Scott albums.
― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 18 January 2009 02:26 (seventeen years ago)
I never knew that wally stott became angela moreley.
― Ed, Sunday, 18 January 2009 02:36 (seventeen years ago)
fascinating life, also wrote the music for Hancocks Half Hour. Musical arrangements on the Goon Show were amazing, track down the episode 'The Sleeping Prince' for an example of fun musical weirdness.
― zappi, Sunday, 18 January 2009 03:08 (seventeen years ago)
Good grief, that resume! It's the Watership Down part that intrigues me the most.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 January 2009 04:58 (seventeen years ago)
Great obituary in the Grauniad. What an astonishing story hers/his was.
I think that's the last major living link with The Goon Show now severed... :-( *
*hang on, is Graham Stark still around?
― Ben E Gesserit (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 23 January 2009 11:56 (seventeen years ago)
oh, of course, Eric Sykes is still with us...
― Ben E Gesserit (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 23 January 2009 11:59 (seventeen years ago)
Stark not dead on Wikipedia.
― Mark G, Friday, 23 January 2009 12:05 (seventeen years ago)
Didn't know she had done so much work! Knew her only from the Scott Walker albums. Great piece in the Guardian, remarkable story.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 23 January 2009 13:09 (seventeen years ago)
Big Louise revealed
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 23 January 2009 14:27 (seventeen years ago)
Oh no, never know about this, RIP!
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 January 2009 13:26 (seventeen years ago)
Happy 100th birthday Angela Morley. This is still one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever recorded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMtaOfg6wnE
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 10 March 2024 11:59 (two years ago)