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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2017 22:00:57 GMT
I don't think there's too much doubt he was the composer of Doctor Who in it's first run. From Planet Of Giants right through stories as late as Horns Of Nimon he was working on the show. He also did almost all the music for all 4 years of Blake's 7 as well as the theme tune. The rather infamous story about JNT taking him to lunch, with Dudley thinking how nice it was for the new producer to make a fuss over him, only to be told he was actually being sacked.....was not a fitting end for the man on Doctor Who. He'd only just done City Of Death, one of his very finest scores.
To this day when BF's composers try and create incidental music for Docs 1-4, it's almost always Dudley Simpson's work that is the reference point. Definitive.
Another sad loss after Paddy Russell but, like Paddy, Dudley made it well into his 90s. A good long time.
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Post by mark687 on Nov 5, 2017 22:05:01 GMT
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Post by shutupbanks on Nov 5, 2017 22:27:24 GMT
Very sad news: Mr Simpson's tunes and flourishes are a part of the soundtrack of my life, as they no doubt are for many others. He will be missed.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Nov 5, 2017 23:11:57 GMT
RIP Dudley Simpson. A very big loss for Doctor Who and the Media Industry as a whole.
People tend to forget how important a part music plays in the film and television we consume. Music helps create meaning, and therefore the success of many Doctor Who stories such as The Three Doctors and Genesis of the Daleks can be partly credited to Dudley Simpson.
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Post by iainmclaughlin on Nov 5, 2017 23:17:20 GMT
RIP, Dudley Simpson. Doctor Who, those wonderful themes for Blake's 7 and The Tomorrow People. That was a hell of a lot of great work. Thank you, sir.
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Post by sherlock on Nov 6, 2017 0:15:05 GMT
Very sad news. RIP to a great composer. City of Death's score is one of my favourite of the entire series.
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Post by Ela on Nov 6, 2017 0:40:46 GMT
I love the Blake's 7 theme. Sorry to hear of his passing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2017 1:56:56 GMT
Some of my favourite music is from his incidental score on The Seeds of Death. He gave an encore performance across Who and elsewhere too spectacular to ignore. He will be missed.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2017 3:20:12 GMT
If you'll pardon the pun, I truly do think he was instrumental to Doctor Who's success, along with Blake's 7 for that matter, his music truly being a part of the character of those shows. As mentioned above, it is no coincidence that when people think of, or reference, classic series music it is almost always the work of Dudley Simpson that they have in mind. To have created so much great and unique sounding music for Who, Blake's 7, and others, given the scant time and limited resources on offer by the BBC at the time, and to be able to do so for so long without burning out creatively, just proves what a monumental talent the man was. He will be missed, but his contributions never forgotten for as long as those shows still have fans.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Nov 6, 2017 12:28:06 GMT
The Music will live on
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Post by number13 on Nov 6, 2017 15:21:38 GMT
There were a few famous examples from other composers but Dudley Simpson mostly was the sound of the Golden Age of classic 'Doctor Who' and his memory will live on as long as the classic era does. His ability to set the mood and create atmosphere was literally priceless in that age when visual effects were either too expensive or impossible.
Some moments that stand out for me are his Panopticon-filling theme as the Time Lords assemble in the 'The Deadly Assassin' and his futuristic music for 'The Claws of Axos' which matches the visual strangeness of that story.
And my favourite, his 'Ice Warriors' score, in that story where each episode opens with a very unusual title sequence of snowy mountains and glaciers, backed by a wordless soprano solo singing like an icy wind. Just some still pictures, but thanks to his music the scene is set perfectly.
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Post by J.A. Prentice on Nov 6, 2017 19:32:24 GMT
RIP. He scored so many of the "iconic" Doctor Who stories and they wouldn't have been the same without him.
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 7, 2017 7:39:47 GMT
Dudleys scores in Doctor Who added atmosphere whether the scenes were dramatic or terrifying Dudley has left us with a plethora of work which fans can appreciate.
So sorry to hear of his passing.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 7, 2017 11:21:29 GMT
I met him a few years ago at an Aussie Dr Who convention- hell of a nice and humble guy, we hung on to his every word.
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Post by newt5996 on Nov 8, 2017 4:02:48 GMT
While it is sad yes, this and the sad passing of Paddy Russell almost cheer me up as they lived full lives doing what they loved.
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Post by doomlord on Nov 12, 2017 20:35:39 GMT
The Tomorrow People was my favourite theme by Dudley. As noted, he was the sound of 70s Doctor Who and fell in love with his music years and years before I even knew his name.
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