Derek Wadsworth

As a musician, he toured Europe with Georgie Fame and was with Humphrey Lyttelton into the mid-1970s. Wadsworth toured the United States with Maynard Ferguson in 1972, as well as recording with the bandleader. He also had lengthy periods in the 1970s with Graham Collier and John Dankworth. Wadsworth founded the Musicians Union's Rock Workshop and lectured there in the latter part of the decade. He also led his own sextet. In 1975, he arranged for Alfie Darling and in the following year, he composed and arranged for Space: 1999 (including the second series's newly-composed main theme) and worked on the film The Man Who Fell to Earth.