Anderson Entertainment presents a unique celebration of the life and TV productions of Gerry Anderson MBE in this world premiere event at the Birmingham Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK on 16th April 2022. Featuring special guests, it is the first time this career-spanning collection of music has been performed live in concert. This sensational show will transport fans through over 60 …
Barry Gray was the usual composer for many of the Anderson shows until the mid 1970s, but on one episode of Space:1999 the responsibility was passed to guitarist Vic Elmes. As discussed on this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, the results were not successful…
The latest Gerry Anderson soundtrack releases from Silva Screen Records have now been announced, giving Space:1999 fans double LP vinyl albums of the scores to season one and season two to look forward to as well as a CD compilation of both releases! Space:1999 ran for two series from 1975 to 1977 and depicted the occupants of Moonbase Alpha’s struggle …
One of the highlights of any Anderson series is the soundtrack, and the releases of those soundtracks are always warmly received by fans! In recent years Network have released Space Precinct and New Captain Scarlet soundtracks, while Fanderson have been releasing many comprehensive albums of Anderson scores for its members since the late 1990s. For those who aren’t members of …
Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, Thunderbirds fans would have occasionally found themselves faced with another television series also claiming to be an iteration of Thunderbirds. While it certainly featured an organisation called International Rescue, a flotilla of futuristic rescue vehicles known as the Thunderbirds, and was even occasionally promoted using the same Thunderbirds logo as the original television …
In 1965, the merchandising arm of AP Films entered into a partnership with Pye Records to establish a children’s audio label named Century 21 Records. Launching in October 1965, the label was one way fans could continue to enjoy Thunderbirds, Stingray and Captain Scarlet during that long week between new episodes (or, once the show went off the air, to fill …
BBC Radio 3’s Sound of Cinema Barry Gray episode airs tomorrow at 3pm UK time. In the show Jamie Anderson, whose father Gerry Anderson gave us Supercar, Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, UFO and Captain Scarlet, joins Matthew Sweet for a look back on the music of Barry Gray, the man who provided the musical voice to Anderson’s classic small screen creations. …
An official Thunderbirds soundtrack is finally on the way! Following releases of the UFO and Supercar soundtracks, an official Thunderbirds soundtrack becomes the third in the series from Gerry Anderson’s iconic TV shows. It is newly compiled and mastered from Barry Gray’s original studio tapes. The Thunderbirds soundtrack album features 37 tracks from 19 episodes (series 1 and 2), including the Thunderbirds main theme and …
Four Feather Falls was the third puppet television series produced by Gerry Anderson, and the first produced by his AP Films that wasn’t commissioned by author Roberta Leigh. Instead, the idea for the series (originally named Two Gun Tex Tucker) came from composer Barry Gray, who envisaged a show that capitalised on the popularity of television Westerns of the late …
Many classic Gerry Anderson shows of the 1960s and 1970s ended with a theme song that was usually completely different from the opening title theme at the beginning of the show! For this list, we’re celebrating the very best of these songs – and we’re keeping to a very strict definition of ‘song’ in that it must feature a vocalist …
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