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Craig Armstrong, OBE (born 29 April 1959), is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica, and film scores. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1981 and has since written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the London Sinfonietta.Armstrong's score for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. He would collaborate with Luhrmann again on his next two films, Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby. His score for the former earned him the 2001 American Film Institute's Composer of the Year award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and a BAFTA. Armstrong was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Original Score in 2004 for the biopic Ray. His other feature film scoring credits include Love Actually, Oliver Stone's World Trade Centre, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and The Incredible Hulk. Armstrong was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland. Description above from the Wikipedia article Craig Armstrong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
An original hard-R jukebox musical that follows the lives and daily struggles of two lost young souls — Hudson, a self-destructive alcoholic and hard rock-wannabe poet, and his ex-girlfriend, Jane, a recently-clean and sober prostitute who's having trouble paying the bills and, unbeknownst to him, is pregnant with his child — as we see how their shattered dreams of the past and their conflicted longing in the present might determine what lies in store for them in their futures. The story, at once a sobering character study and a scathing social critique, is set in the mean streets of early 1980's New York, inspired by the works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Bob Fosse, Spike Lee, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Julie Taymor, Paul Verhoeven, and especially narrative-wise, the Technicolor melodramas of Douglas Sirk. The rock opera features covers of numerous timeless songs from various influential bands and groundbreaking artists, such as Robert Tepper, Green Day, Pink Floyd, Ben Moody feat. Anastacia, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Jefferson Starship, Styx, Heart, Electric Light Orchestra, Nazareth, The Who, Janis Joplin, Eagles, Meat Loaf, Def Leppard, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Laura Branigan, Simon & Garfunkel, Bee Gees, Elvis Presley, Berlin, Billy Joel, Cream, Queen, and Chris Isaak.
