G.B.H.: Original Music From The Channel Four Series

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Original Music From The Channel Four Series G.B.H.
television soundtrack by Elvis Costello & Richard Harvey
Released	July 1991
Producer	Richard Harvey, Elvis Costello, Austin Ince
Label	Demon Soundtracks, Rykodisc (reissue)
Length	69:43


CD back cover and disc.

1991 soundtrack for the TV series G.B.H. features music composed by Elvis Costello and Richard Harvey.

Tracks

Side one
	Title	Length
1.	G.B.H. opening titles: The Life And Times Of Michael Murray	4:32
2.	"It Wasn't Me"	2:02
3.	Men Of Alloy	3:52
4.	Lambs To The Slaughter	4:18
5.	Bubbles	2:12
6.	The "Goldilocks" Theme	3:06
7.	Perfume - The Odour Of Money	4:04
8.	Barbara Douglas: Assassin	3:09
9.	Pursuit Suite	5:07
10.	Prufrock Quartet: The Roaring Boy	4:12

Side two
	Title	Length
1.	"....So I Used Five!"	1:28
2.	Love From A Cold Land	2:28
3.	In A Cemetery Garden	1:58
4.	"Smack 'Im!"	2:16
5.	Woodlands - "Oh Joy!"	3:46
6.	"It's Cold Up There"	2:53
7.	Going Home Service	5:06
8.	Grave Music	2:30
9.	The Puppet Masters' Work	4:11
10.	"He's So Easy"	1:58
11.	Another Time, Another Place	2:02
12.	Closing Titles	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

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

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:

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

Richard Harvey - keyboards

Nick Glennie-Smith - keyboards

Liner notes

LP back cover and 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

Release info

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