Alan Tew is a British composer and

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. He got his start in the 1950s as the pianist and arranger for the Len Turner Band based in London. Tew is known as a composer of

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, including the theme tunes for British

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programmes, ''

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'' called "Bond Street Parade", and '' ...And Mother Makes Three''. He also composed all the music for the

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series, '' The Hanged Man'', some of which was used as incidental music for ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and the 2009

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spoof '' Black Dynamite''. One of the cuts composed for ''The Hanged Man'', entitled "The Big One", would eventually become used as the theme and bumper music for the American television series, ''

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''. "The Big One" would also be used in an episode of the British

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show ''

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'', as well as the erotic films ''

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'' (1977), '' The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue'' (1980), and ''

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'' (1979). Tew also led his own

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, The Alan Tew Orchestra, and collaborated with

Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; ), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and, later in ...

. During his career, Tew made a number of orchestral albums including ''This Is My Scene'' on Phase 4 Stereo (1967) and ''The Magnificent Westerns'' on CBS Records (1969).

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