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{{xtoc}}{{Infobox Album
|album_name   = <small>Original Music From The Channel Four Series</small><br>G.B.H.
|image        = GBH album cover.jpg
|album_type   = television soundtrack
|album_artist = [[Elvis Costello]] & [[Richard Harvey]]
|release_info = July 1991
|record_info  = 
|producer     = [[Richard Harvey]], [[Elvis Costello]], [[Austin Ince]]
|label        = [[Demon Soundtracks]], [[Rykodisc]] (reissue)
|length       = 69:43
}}
{{double image|right|GBH CD back cover.jpg|182|GBH CD disc.jpg|148|CD back cover and disc.}}
1991 soundtrack for the TV series '''''G.B.H.''''' features music composed by Elvis Costello and [[Richard Harvey]]. 


==Tracks==
{{tracklist
| headline      = Side one
| title1        = [[G.B.H. opening titles: The Life And Times Of Michael Murray]]
| length1       = 4:32
| title2        = [["It Wasn't Me"]]
| length2       = 2:02
| title3        = [[Men Of Alloy]]
| length3       = 3:52
| title4        = [[Lambs To The Slaughter]]
| length4       = 4:18
| title5        = [[Bubbles]]
| length5       = 2:12
| title6        = [[The "Goldilocks" Theme]]
| length6       = 3:06
| title7        = [[Perfume - The Odour Of Money]]
| length7       = 4:04
| title8        = [[Barbara Douglas: Assassin]]
| length8       = 3:09
| title9        = [[Pursuit Suite]]
| length9       = 5:07
| title10       = [[Prufrock Quartet: The Roaring Boy]]
| length10      = 4:12
}}
{{tracklist
| headline      = Side two
| title1        = [["....So I Used Five!"]]
| length1       = 1:28
| title2        = [[Love From A Cold Land]] 
| length2       = 2:28
| title3        = [[In A Cemetery Garden]] 
| length3       = 1:58
| title4        = [["Smack 'Im!"]]
| length4       = 2:16
| title5        = [[Woodlands - "Oh Joy!"]]
| length5       = 3:46
| title6        = [["It's Cold Up There"]] 
| length6       = 2:53
| title7        = [[Going Home Service]] 
| length7       = 5:06
| title8        = [[Grave Music]]
| length8       = 2:30
| title9        = [[The Puppet Masters' Work]]
| length9       = 4:11
| title10       = [["He's So Easy"]]
| length10      = 1:58
| title11       = [[Another Time, Another Place]]
| length11      = 2:02
| title12       = [[Closing Titles]]
| length12      = 2:33
}}


==Notes==
* Original music from [[Alan Bleasdale]]'s Channel Four TV series ''G.B.H.''
* Contains early versions of some themes that later appeared on ''[[Mighty Like A Rose]]'' and ''[[The Juliet Letters]]''. 
* GBH stands for "grievous bodily harm."
* "[[Perfume - The Odour Of Money]]" and "[[Love From A Cold Land]]" also appear on ''[[Shroud For A Nightingale: The Screen Music Of Richard Harvey]]''.

==Credits==
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* Music composed by [[Richard Harvey]] and Elvis Costello
* Music produced by Richard Harvey, Elvis Costello and [[Austin Ince]]
* Music arranged and conducted by Richard Harvey
* 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]]
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* 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 musicians:
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: [[David Woodcock]] - violin
: [[Roger Chase]] - viola
: [[Stephen Tees]] - viola
: [[Levine Andrade]] - viola
: [[Andrew Brown]] - viola
: [[Anthony Pleeth]] - cello
: [[Chris Laurence]] - double bass
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: [[Robin McGee]] - double bass
: [[Paul Cullington]] - double bass
: [[Andy Findon]] - flute, baritone sax
: [[Tom Kelly]] - clarinet, bass clarinet
: [[Frank Lloyd]] - horn
: [[Hugh Seenan]] - horn
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: [[Peter Davies]] - trombone
: [[Dudley Bright]] - trombone
: [[David Purser]] - trombone
: [[Ron Aspery]] - sax
: [[Richard Harvey]] - keyboards
: [[Nick Glennie-Smith]] - keyboards
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==Liner notes==
;;LP back cover and CD notes:
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''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.

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''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
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==Release info==
{| border="1"
|-
| '''Release date'''
| '''Media'''
| '''Catalog number'''
| '''Comments'''
|-
| 1991-07-__ 
| LP
| Demon Soundtrack DSLP 4 
| 
|-
| 1991-07-__ 
| MC
| Demon Soundtrack DSCASS 4 
| 
|-
| 1991-07-__ 
| CD
| Demon Soundtrack DSCD 4 
| 
|-
| 19__-__-__ 
| CD
| Demon Soundtrack MSIF 3370
| Japan
|-
| 1994-09-05 
| CD
| Rykodisc RCD 20284
| 
|-
|}
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==Related Releases==
'''G.B.H. Original Music From The Channel Four Series UK Cassette DSMC4'''<br />
{{G.B.H. UK Cassette DSMC4 Image Browser}}
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'''Japanese CD release MSIF 3370 (1991)'''<br />
<br />
[[G.B.H.: Original Music From The Channel Four Series MSIF 3370]]
<br />

==Internal links==
*[[Alan Bleasdale]]
*[[G.B.H. liner notes]]
*[[Elvis Costello songs in film and television]]

==External links==
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*[http://www.richardharvey.net/Discography14.html RichardHarvey.net]
*[http://www.elviscostello.com/homepage#/records-detail///Demon+Records/Elvis+Costello+And+Richard+Harvey/G.B.H./cd/692 ElvisCostello.com]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.B.H._(soundtrack) Wikipedia: G.B.H. (soundtrack)]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.B.H._(TV_series) Wikipedia: G.B.H. (TV series)]
*[http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/misc/gbh.html elviscostello.info]
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*[http://www.discogs.com/Elvis-Costello-Richard-Harvey-Original-Music-From-The-Channel-Four-Series-GBH/release/822682 Discogs]
*[http://www.allmusic.com/album/gbh-original-music-from-the-channel-four-series-mw0000906584 AllMusic]
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101104/ IMDb]
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101104/soundtrack IMDb: soundtrack]
*{{Amazon|asin=B0000009V2}}
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[[Category:1991]]
[[Category:Soundtrack albums]]
[[Category:Television soundtracks]]
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