Johnny Hawksworth

Johnny Hawksworth has had enough of a music career for any two men -- as a bassist and sometime composer for Ted Heath's band during the 1950s and early 1960s, as an arranger/composer for British television, and as a film composer during the 1960s. He started out on the piano as a boy, but became bored with the lessons that he was forced to take. He subsequently switched to upright bass, on which -- by his own account in an interview on the Vinyl Vulture website -- he discovered that he could treat the fret board like a piano keyboard. He not only got very good, but he became ...