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Roy Budd (14th March, 1947 - 7th August, 1993) was a British jazz musician and film composer. Although some Bio's say Roy started playing at four years old. In fact he was two and a half years old when he started picking out tunes on the piano the morning after a Christmas party. When Roy Budd was six years old, two German proffessors visited him in South Norwood, and after various tests, found that he had perfect pitch. They tried to talk his parents into letting them take Roy back to Germany with them. They said he could be the next Mozart! Of course he didn't go. At eight years old he had a vast musical catalog. He was featured on the Carol Levis show on radio when he was only 10 years old. By the time he was around eight years old he could play anything he heard. He even sang some Jerry Lee lewis songs when he was eleven years old with his brother Peter and brothers friend geoffry at the Sutton Granada under the name "the Blue Devil's." He formed the Roy Budd Trio during his teens, before embarking on a career as a jazz pianist. His first film score was for the American western Soldier Blue in 1970, but most of his film work was on British productions. His best known score is probably the one for the 1971 Michael Caine film Get Carter, although he also later worked on a number of films for the producer Euan Lloyd, including Paper Tiger, The Wild Geese, The Sea Wolves and Who Dares Wins. He was able to watch television, play scrabble, eat dinner and write a score, all at the same time. Never once did he ever try his music out on the piano. It was all in his head. When he wrote a score or any type of music it was, as far as Roy was concerned, finished.

He died of a brain haemorrhage aged 47 in 1993.

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