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William Alan Hawkshaw BEM (27 March 1937 – 16 October 2021) was a British composer and performer, particularly of library music used as themes for films and television programs. Hawkshaw worked extensively for the KPM production music company in the 1950s to the 1970s, composing and recording many stock tracks that have been used extensively ...
31 January – Channel 4 News introduces its current news theme 'Best Endeavours' composed by Alan Hawkshaw. January BBC1 starts broadcasting a full afternoon service, consisting of regional programmes, repeats and old feature films. London Weekend Television drops in-vision continuity.
The music used in the film's trailer was a stock piece by British composer Alan Hawkshaw known to British viewers for its use as the title theme for Channel 4 News. Unusually, Channel 4 News did not secure permanent exclusivity rights to Hawkshaw's theme, titled "Best Endeavours", resulting in it also being used for the trailer for Pale Rider. [22]
In 1985, when ABC's evening news bulletin was replaced by The National, Majestic Fanfare was replaced by Alan Hawkshaw's Best Endeavours, then also used by Britain's Channel 4 News bulletins. [1] In 1985, when ABC News was relaunched, Majestic Fanfare did not return. Since then, two Australian-composed tunes have been used.
Alan Hawkshaw: Best Endeavours (the Theme to Channel 4 News) Unknown Label: BRUTON BRCD15. Bach Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 David Goode (organ) Label: HERALD HAVPCD 219. Sergei Prokofiev The Fight and The Prince gives his order (from Romeo & Juliet, Act 1 scene 1) London Symphony Orchestra/Andre Previn Label: PHILIPS 464 726-2.
With the exception of a period in the mid-1980s, during which a synthesised theme ("Best Endeavours", written by Alan Hawkshaw, which was the theme for Channel 4 News in the UK) was used for around a year, this was used on radio until August 1988, and on television until early 1985.
The New Statesman is a British sitcom made in the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the United Kingdom's Conservative government of the period. It was written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran at the request of, and as a starring vehicle for, its principal actor Rik Mayall.
"Chicken Man" is a tune composed in 1975 by Alan Hawkshaw used in two popular British TV series since the 1970s. Background