Catacombs Credits Guide
Derek Wadsworth

DEREK WADSWORTH Music (Year 2)

Derek Wadsworth was born in 1939. He died in December 2008.

Wadsworth began playing the cornet at 11, and later learnt the trombone. He played in an amateur band in Brighouse, Yorkshire, and got his first job in the Squadronaires, a resident band at a Butlin's holiday camp. He occasionally arranged music for his band and jazz groups. He intended to go into design, but instead took a job in Dusty Springfield's back up group, which inspired his interest in rock. He worked with Georgie Fame, George Harrison and The Rolling Stones, and he was musical director on the British staging of Hair. He did film scores for Spring and Port Wine and Alfie, Darling and commercials. He was introduced to Anderson for the Into Infinity film, which led him to being asked to do the second series of Space: 1999.

He recorded a cover version of his own Year Two theme (as well as Barry Gray's Year One theme) with The City Of Prague Orchestra for the 1997 Silva Screen CD "The Cult Files: Re-Opened".

Wadsworth attended conventions in 1993, 1995, 1996, 2005. He appeared in The Space: 1999 Documentary (1996).

• View the imdb credits
• Derek Wadsworth interview by Jerry Scott and Kevin McCorry, 1997
• Derek's comments on the series
• Derek Wadsworth interview, 1993