Anne Dudley

Anne Jennifer Dudley née Beckingham born 7 May 1956 is an English composer keyboardist conductor and pop musician She was the first BBC Concert Orchestras Composer in Association in 2001 She has worked in the classical and pop genres as a film composer and was one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise In 1998 Dudley won an Oscar for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for The Full Monty In addition to over twenty other film scores in 2012 she served as music producer for the film version of Les Misérables also acting as arranger and composing some new additional music Dudley was born in Beckenham Kent She graduated with a masters in music from Kings College London in 1978 Trained as a classical performer she moved into the competitive commercial field as a session musician where her professional relationship with Trevor Horn began In 1982 Dudley made significant contributions to the Hornproduced The Lexicon of Love album by ABC She went from fleshingout keyboard parts to scoring the albums orchestrations which were according to Horn her firstever string arrangements and also cowriting some of the songs Dudley was a founding member of the successful band Art of Noise in 1983 which helped pioneer the use of sampling within the pop genre Their standout hits include Beat Box 1984 Moments in Love 1985 Close to the Edit 1984 Paranoimia 1986 which featured a monologue about insomnia by the artificial intelligence character Max Headroom who fitted in well with the groups futuristic anonymity and with Tom Jones Kiss a Top 10 in 1988 Art of Noise also produced the theme tune to the ITV game show The Krypton Factor which was used between 1986 and 1993 and is arguably its most recognised theme Theme From The Krypton Factor was composed and recorded in 1986 and was reworked as Crusoe on their 1987 album Dudleys association with Trevor Horn and Art of Noise led on to working with artists such as Frankie Goes to Hollywood Seal Marc Almond Rod Stewart Robbie Williams and more recently Siphiwo She has cowritten songs with Malcolm McLaren Buffalo Gals Cathy Dennis Too Many Walls and a 1930sinspired song with Sting called This Was Never Meant to Be She produced the Tom Jones hit You Can Leave Your Hat On 1988 and a Debbie Harry single Strike Me Pink 1993 In 1989 Dudley produced and conducted the string arrangements for the eponymous debut album by Welsh sophistipop duo Waterfront Her intricate production is demonstrated most notably on the song Nature of Love which was released as a single in both the UK and US Another collaboration in 1989 was with Neil Tennant from Pet Shop Boys and Bernard Sumner of New Order Dudley contributed the lush string arrangements on their debut Electronic release Getting Away with It which peaked at 12 in the UK in December 1989 and 38 in the US in 1990 Dudley produced two tracks on the 2002 Opera Babes album Beyond Imagination ranking No 1 on the UK classical charts for 11 weeks and No 4 on the US Billboard charts In 2004 she produced the album Voice for Alison Moyet The album an eclectic collection of cover versions reached No 7 on the UK Albums Chart Source Article Anne Dudley from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30