Derek Wadsworth

Derek Wadsworth

Derek Wadsworth (5 February 1939, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire – 3 December 2008, Oxfordshire) was a British jazz trombonist, session musician, composer and arranger.

Derek Wadsworth's first work in television came in 1971 as music arranger for Christa: Swedish Fly Girls.

In 1975 he worked on a production called Alfie Darling which soon lead to him being contracted to compose the music for the second season of Space 1999 which is what he is now best known for. He also wrote the music for the Gerry Anderson production The Day After Tomorrow.

Later works include music for Britannia Hospital (1982), The Whales of August (1987) and A Child Is a Wild Thing in 1976.

Arranger to Judy Garland, Nina Simone (with the Boston Symphony Orchestra), The King's Singers (including vocal scores), Kate Bush, Dusty Springfield, The Echoes, Shirley Bassey, Alan Price, Georgie Fame, Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The Rolling Stones, Manfred Mann, The Small Faces, David Essex, Nigel Kennedy, among many more.

As session musician, he worked with George Harrison, Diana Ross, Tom Jones, Charles Aznavour, Randy Crawford, Dionne Warwick, Simply Red, Tony Bennett, Maynard Ferguson, Alex Harvey, Mike Oldfield among others.

Producer of two gold albums for Bill Tarmey (Coronation Street) among others.

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  • "Breakaway"
  • "Matter of Life and Death"
  • "Black Sun"
  • "Ring Around the Moon"
  • "Earthbound"
  • "Another Time, Another Place"
  • "Missing Link"
  • "Guardian of Piri"
  • "Force of Life"
  • "Alpha Child"
  • "The Last Sunset"
  • "Voyager's Return"
  • "Collision Course"
  • "Death's Other Dominion"
  • "The Full Circle"
  • "End of Eternity"
  • "War Games"
  • "The Last Enemy"
  • "The Troubled Spirit"
  • "Space Brain"
  • "The Infernal Machine"
  • "Mission of the Darians"
  • "Dragon's Domain"
  • "The Testament of Arkadia"
  • "The Metamorph"
  • "The Exiles"
  • "One Moment of Humanity"
  • "All That Glisters"
  • "Journey to Where"
  • "The Taybor"
  • "The Rules of Luton"
  • "The Mark of Archanon"
  • "Brian the Brain"
  • "New Adam, New Eve"
  • "Catacombs of the Moon"
  • "The AB Chrysalis"
  • "Seed of Destruction"
  • "The Beta Cloud"
  • "Space Warp"
  • "A Matter of Balance"
  • The Bringers of Wonder, Part One
  • Part Two
  • "The Lambda Factor"
  • "The Seance Spectre"
  • "Dorzak"
  • "Devil's Planet"
  • "The Immunity Syndrome"
  • "The Dorcons"
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