Alan Parker - Retrospective: Funky Retro Grooves (2015)

Alan Parker (born 26 August 1944, in Matlock, Derbyshire) is an English composer and guitarist. He had a successful career as session guitarist starting in the late 1960s, and played with Blue Mink, The Congregation, CCS and Serge Gainsbourg , together with his own studio session bands Hungry Wolf and Ugly Custard. Much of Parker's session work has gone uncredited but recently he has been named as the electric guitarist on Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man and The Walker Brothers's No Regrets. He is known to have played with Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Dusty Springfield, Tony Bennett, Mick Jagger, Serge Gainsbourg, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Dave Clark Five.

He was composer Jerry Goldsmith's orchestrator for many years and was called on by Howard Shore to help him out with some of the music for The Lord of the Rings. He also was the composer for the British Film Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker. Parker is now a successful composer for film and TV including What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Rhodes, Victoria and Albert for which Alan was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, Walking With Cavemen, Fallen Angel, Family, ITN's News At Ten, Jaws 3-D and Coast for the BBC.