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Laurie Johnson
British film and tv composer and bandleader
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dead
- born
- 1927
- died
- 2024
- age at death
- 96
- known for
- composer, bandleader, conductor
1927 – 2024
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who laurie johnson is
Laurence Reginald Ward Johnson was an English composer and bandleader who wrote scores for dozens of film and television series, described as "one of the most highly regarded arrangers of big-band swing and pop music" in England. Much of Johnson's music was written for the KPM music library, for which he composed and conducted between 1960 and 1965.
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