(1940-03-23)23 March 1940 Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, England
Died
4 July 2022(2022-07-04) (aged 82)
Genres
Pop music, musicals, theme music
Occupation(s)
Songwriter, lyricist, composer
Years active
1960s–2022
Website
www.kenhoward-alanblaikley.com
Musical artist
Alan Tudor Blaikley (23 March 1940 – 4 July 2022)[1][2][3] was an English songwriter and composer, best known for writing a series of international hits in the 1960s and 1970s in collaboration with Ken Howard, including the UK number ones "Have I the Right?" and "The Legend of Xanadu".[4] Together with Howard, he also wrote two West End musicals and a number of TV themes, including the theme music for the BBC's long-running series of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
^"Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music – Howard & Blaikley". Donaldclarkemusicbox.com. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
^"Elvis Presley hit songwriter Alan Blaikley dies age 82 as co-writer pays moving tribute". Mirror Group Newspapers. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
^Obituaries, Telegraph (6 July 2022). "Alan Blaikley, co-writer of a string of Sixties and Seventies pop hits who went on to become a psychotherapist – obituary". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
^Entry under Howard & Blaikley in The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (1989)
Alan Tudor Blaikley (23 March 1940 – 4 July 2022) was an English songwriter and composer, best known for writing a series of international hits in the...
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performance by the band were aspiring songwriters Ken Howard and AlanBlaikley. Howard and Blaikley would become a prolific British songwriting team, but in 1964...
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Clark, Alan and Derek Longmuir, Devine and Faulkner. During that time the band worked with the production team, Ken Howard and AlanBlaikley, who had...
Ark 2 (1969), a concept album written and produced by Ken Howard and AlanBlaikley that tells the story of man's evacuation from a burning Earth and its...
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