GBH
From ElvisCostello
This is the original soundtrack for the TV series GBH, by EC and Richard Harvey.
CD notes:
Someone is out to get Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay). He is the top man in town, champion of the oppressed, chaser of women, and the new leader of the city. Michael Murray is popular, powerful and ambitious - the local politician who knows what it's like to be hated, and who needs to be loved. His hunger for power leads him to play for higher stakes.
He calls a 24-hour protest strike hoping to generate publicity. No one goes to work that day except for one man - Jim Nelson (Michael Palin), the much-loved headmaster of a school for disturbed children. He steals the limelight from Michael Murray and becomes the hero of the day.
Michael Murray seeks revenge against Jim Nelson. Jim starts to crack under the strain. Murray, too, is plagued by doubts and anxieties, haunted by the ghosts of his own childhood. Just when the pressure of public life and power games starts to get on top of him, a beautiful woman arrives on the scene ...
Director: Robert Young Producers: Verity Lambert, David Jones, Alan Bleasdale (GBH Films Ltd) Photography: Sophie Baker GBH logo design: Debbie Mendoza Design: Michael Krage
Tracks
01. G.B.H. opening titles: The Life And Times Of Michael Murray [4:32]
02. "It Wasn't Me" [2:02]
03. Men Of Alloy [3:52]
04. Lambs To The Slaughter [4:18]
05. Bubbles [2:12]
06. The "Goldilocks" Theme [3:06]
07. Perfume - The Odour Of Money [4:04]
08. Barbara Douglas: Assassin [3:09]
09. Pursuite Suite [5:07]
10. Prufrock Quartett: The Roaring Boy [4:12]
11. "... So I Used Five!" [1:28]
12. Love From A Cold Land [2:28]
13. In A Cemetery Garden [1:58]
14. "Smack 'Im!" [2:16]
15. Woodlands - "Oh Joy!" [3:46]
16. "It's Cold Up There" [2:53]
17. Going Home Service [5:06]
18. Grave Music [2:30]
19. The Puppet Masters' Work [4:11]
20. "He's So Easy" [1:58]
21. Another Time, Another Place [2:02]
22. Closing Titles [2:33]
Credits
- Music composed by Richard Harvery and Elvis Costello
- Music produced by Richard Harvery, Elvis Costello and Austin Ince
- Music arranged and conducted by Richard Harvery
- Orchestral contractor Isobel Griffiths
- Music coordinator Harry Gregson-Williams
- Recording engineer Austin Ince
- Assistant to the engineer Cameron McBride
- Music copyist Martin Loewenthal
- Special thanks to Nick Glennie-Smith
- Music recorded between February 1991 and May 1991 at Snake Ranch Studios, Chelsea and C.T.S. Wembley with varying sized orchestras but featuring the following:
- David Woodcock - violin
- Roger Chase - viola
- Stephen Tees - viola
- Levine Andrade - viola
- Andrew Brown - viola
- Anthony Pleeth - cello
- Chris Laurence - double bass
- Robin McGee - double bass
- Paul Cullington - double bass
- Andy Findon - flute, baritone sax
- Tom Kelly - clarinet, bass clarinet
- Frank Lloyd - horn
- Hugh Seenan - horn
- Peter Davies - trombone
- Dudley Bright - trombone
- David Purser - trombone
- Ron Aspery - sax (on opening titles)
- Richard Harvey - keyboards
- Nick Glennie-Smith - keyboards
