ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? – Nickelodeon
composer, music video

CHRIS CROSS – Showtime / ITV
composer, theme music, incidental cues

WORKING GIRL – 20th Century Fox
incidental cues, synth programming

WHO’S THAT GIRL? – Miramax
songwriting, sound track album

SIMPLY MAD ABOUT THE MOUSE – Disney
composer, producer, title music, sound track album

WNYE LOGO SERIES – WNYE TV
composer

NOVA “TORNADO” – PBS
incidental cues, synth programming

THE GOONIES – Amblin Entertainment
songwriting, producer, sound track album

JACK’S BACK – New Line Cinema
sound effects, synth programming, incidental cues

THE GUN IN BETTY LOU’S HANDBAG – TriStar
composer, producer, incidental cues

THE NIGHT WE NEVER MET – Miramax
composer, incidental cues

THE LAKE – High End UK
composer

While searching through some storage boxes the other day, I came across an assortment of badges and, passes and photos. There were also several photos taken at various gigs in Japan. This one taken during a Teramasu Hino concert, live at the Tokyo Dome – or “The Egg” as it’s sometimes called. Here’s me and Steve Ferone (Clapton’s drummer) trying to decipher the mysterious ‘half time show’. Go figure…

(left) At a sound check in Yokohama, Japan while touring with Riuichi Sakamoto – 1986. Yamaha had sponsored this tour, and we were awash in fresh gear. Shown here is Riuichi’s one of a kind (at the time) custom made “midi” 9ft concert grand. I also remember scoring two Akai S900 samplers on this trip – several months before they were released in the US.

I came across an assortment of backstage passes the other day. The one I’m most proud of is my artist/performer backstage pass from Live Aid (1985) where I played on stage with Hall & Oates, Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin of the Temptations, Mick Jagger and Tina Turner.

The line up for Mick’s set was essentially the Hall & Oates rhythm section including T Bone Wolk on bass, G E Smith on guitar, Micky Currie on drums and myself on keyboards. Here’s a picture of me at sound check (second from left) – JFK Stadium 1985.

We’d rehearsed for a week in New York and had worked up several tunes with Mick and couple with Tina Turner who was scheduled to join him for a duet towards the end of the set.

I remember it was a million degrees that day in Philadelphia. There was a huge backstage area which had been used as a sort of carnival midway where each act, record label, TV crew, broadcast outlet and every other conceivable entity had set up base camp. They were arranged in rows and aisles and the whole affair took on the appearance of a makeshift tent city. There seemed to be an endless supply of tv and recording trucks, band trailors and hospitality tents belonging to various record labels, MTV, VH1, CNN, ET etc. Quite the circus. We weren’t scheduled to go on till 4pm that afternoon, so everyone was pretty toasted from the heat and stress by the time we went on. Anyway, pretty amazing. In the end, the show was viewed by 1.5 billion people! Supposedly 80% of the worlds tv sets were tuned to Live Aid that day.