Laurie Johnson

Laurence Reginald Ward Johnson (7 February 1927 – 16 January 2024) was an English composer and bandleader.

Quotes

• After a musical on the stage has been running a little while it can be quite painful watching. The singers get out of tune, the timpanist can come in halfway through the second act and fall over the gong.
  • "The Sound of £££'s for Mr Johnson", Evening Standard (19 March 1965), p. 8

• The film has to tell the composer what it need, then it's in the lap of the gods, isn't it, as to whether others think it works or not.
  • Laurie Johnson interview (14 August 2018)