[Atarah]

This is all very interesting stuff. I know more about him now than I ever did. All I have been told is what I have read, and that was that he was born in Huncoat in 1934 and educated at St John's and the Grammar School. He was known as "a somewhat unruly boy" who has achieved international recognition as a music composer in the classical and operatic fields. He is supposed to owe it all to his Mum, who bought him a clarinet, paid for lessons and got him to join a local military band. He has been described as "the most famous unknown composer in the history of music"
He was knighted in 1988