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Paul Buckmaster
12+ albums
SoundtrackambientinstrumentalProgressive rockbritish
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Paul John Buckmaster (13 June 1946 – 7 November 2017) was a Grammy Award-winning English artist, arranger, conductor and composer. He is best known for his orchestral collaborations with Elton John and with The Rolling Stones in the 1970s. He began learning the cello at the age of four and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music at age 21. Buckmaster displayed professional mastery as a cellist. However, he soon started his career as an orchestral arranger on various hit songs, including David Bowie's "Space Oddity" (1969), and contributed orchestral collaborations on a number of early albums by Elton John (1969-72) and on The Rolling Stones' album Sticky Fingers (1971). Buckmaster also helped Miles Davis with the preparation of On the Corner (1972). He wrote the arrangements for the studio sessions, in which he also participated, at Davis' request, by humming bass lines and rhythms to lead the musicians. The arrangements he wrote were often used as a starting point to be transformed until what was being played bore no resemblance to what he had written. This was in keeping with the Stockhausian approach that Buckmaster had been discussing with Davis in the weeks leading up to the session. Buckmaster also played with Bowie and his band on the recordings for the original soundtrack to the science fiction film The Man Who Fell to Earth, in which David Bowie starred as Thomas Jerome Newton. Buckmaster himself told in the book 60 Years of Bowie that he had played cello on t
top songs
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Silent Night
3,1522Dreamers Awake
2,7683Peters Does His Worst
2,3914Back In '96
2,2615"Introduccion" from Suite Punta del Este (12 Monkeys Theme)
1,4366Cole's First Dream/Volunteer Duty/Topside
9937Time Confusion / To The Mental Ward / Planet Ogo
9818Cole's First Dream / Volunteer Duty / Topside
9099Time Confusion/To the Mental Ward/Planet Ogo
84810Photo Search / Mission Brief
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