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Christopher Evans-Ironside (10 May 1940 – 3 June 2022)Schlagerkomponist Christopher Evans-Ironside ist tot
was an English and German songwriter, composer, and music producer. Born in England and based in
Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
, Germany, his awards included Gold and Platinum discs for collaborations with
Nino de Angelo Domenico Gerhard Gorgoglione (born 18 December 1963), known professionally as Nino de Angelo, is a German singer of Italian descent known for his 1983 chart-topper " Jenseits von Eden", and who participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 198 ...
and
Drafi Deutscher Drafi Franz Richard Deutscher (9 May 1946 – 9 June 2006) was a German singer and songwriter of Sinti origin. Biography Early life and career Deutscher was born in Charlottenburg, in the western zone of Berlin, Germany. Between 1964 and 196 ...
as Mixed Emotions and
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. In the early 1980s Evans-Ironside produced three
progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...
albums, the first two as a duo with singer
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, ''Stonehenge'' and ''Symbols"'', and the third as a solo project, ''Empty Spaces,'' in addition collaborating with Michael Chambosse on a concept album, ''The Timemachine.'' Evans-Ironside was a prolific soundtrack composer for film, television and theatre, with work including
Die Rättin ''The Rat'' (german: Die Rättin, literally ''The Ratess'') is a 1986 novel by the German writer Günter Grass. Structure and content The plot is composed of many narrative strands and oscillates between fairytale, travelogue and surreal novel. It ...
and Fisimatenten, and music for ballet productions by the
Görlitz Görlitz (; pl, Zgorzelec, hsb, Zhorjelc, cz, Zhořelec, East Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', ''Gerltsch'') is a town in the German state of Saxony. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River, and is the largest town in Upper Lusa ...
Theatre.


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* * * 1940 births 2022 deaths English emigrants to Germany German film score composers Male film score composers German male composers German musical theatre composers German keyboardists German songwriters Musicians from Hamburg {{Germany-composer-stub