Rick Lloyd

Rick Lloyd is a British actor and musical director best known as a member of the original Flying Pickets who had a Christmas number 1 hit in 1983 with a cover of Yazoo's Only You. Although the Flying Pickets are known for making a cappella covers of other people's songs there are some original songs on their 1984 Lost Boys Album that were written by Rick Lloyd. One of these songs, So Close, did manage to creep into the bottom half of the UK charts for a short while.

Rick composed the song "Dives in Omnia" for the 1987 Channel 4 series Porterhouse Blue starring David Jason [Internet Movie Database Accessed June 21 2007] which led to him becoming the joint winner of the 1987 BAFTA TV Award for Best Original TV Music [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516113/awards Rick Lloyd - Awards ] ] . He also composed the music for John Burrow's Viva Espana, which won Best Musical at the 1993 London Fringe Awards.

He was musical director for the 1999 film 'Julie and the Cadillacs'. [Internet Movie Database Accessed June 21 2007] , and was also musical director for recent tours of "Grease", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Hair".

Other collaborations with John Burrows include the 1980 play "One Big Blow" about a group of miners in a colliery brass band. This was originally performed by John McGrath's Theatre Company, of which the other members of The Flying Pickets were members. "One Big Blow" will be showing at the Romiley Little Theatre later in 2007 [ [http://www.romileylittletheatre.org.uk/page4.html Alice in Wonderland ] ]

He has recently moved to Wales where as well as performing and composing he is also teaching a course in Songs and Song-writing.

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