Laurie Johnson

Born in Hampstead, London, he trained at the Royal College of Music under Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams, supplemented by trumpet lessons with Ernest Hall, and served four years in the Coldstream Guards as a French-horn player before turning to arranging for big-band leaders such as Ted Heath and Jack Parnell. Early theatrical success came with the musical adaptation of Henry Fielding’… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources