Anne Dudley

22/09/2021 49 min

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Anne Dudley, composer, musician and arranger, shares the stories from her incredible career. Anne’s made a huge contribution to some of the biggest pop records and soundtracks of the past 40 years. As well as a founding member of Art of Noise, Anne’s string arrangements and keyboard playing can be heard on hits by ABC, Dollar, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, A-ha, Electronic, Wham!, George Michael, Will Young and Lloyd Cole & The Commotions. Art of Noise with Duane Eddy’s remake of ‘Peter Gunn’ earned them a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Anne has been credited with reinventing the pop career of Tom Jones when he was invited to appear on their version of Prince’s Kiss. Anne Dudley shares the stories of some of these classic recordings and composing soundtracks for Buster, Jeeves And Wooster, Poldark and The Full Monty which picked up an Oscar for Best Comedy Score.

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