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Alan Blaikley (born 23 March 1940) is an English songwriter and composer. He is best known for writing a series of international hits in the 1960s and 1970s in collaboration with Ken Howard, including the UK number ones "Have I the Right?" and "The Legend of Xanadu".〔Entry under Howard & Blaikley in ''The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Popular Music'' (1989)〕 Together with Howard, he has also written two West End musicals and a number of TV themes, including the theme music for the BBC's long-running series of Agatha Christie's ''Miss Marple''. ==Early life and career== Born Alan Tudor Blaikley in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London,〔 Blaikley was educated at University College School (UCS), Hampstead, and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read Classical Moderations (Latin and Greek) and English, and was Reviews Editor of the university newspaper, ''Cherwell''. After coming down from university, he joined forces with two old UCS friends Ken Howard and Paul Overy with whom, between 1962 and 1963, he ran and edited four issues of a magazine, ''Axle Quarterly'', publishing early work by Melvyn Bragg, Ray Gosling, Alexis Lykiard, Gillian Freeman and Simon Raven, among others. An offshoot of the ''Quarterly'' was a series of five booklets on controversial topics commissioned by Blaikley, Howard and Overy, ''Axle Spokes'' (Axle Publications 1963): Peter Graham ''The Abortive Renaissance'',〔British Library, Cup 702 1/1.〕 a critical examination of British New Wave cinema; John Gale ''Sex – is it easy?〔British Library, Cup 702 1/2.〕'', the emergence of the permissive society; Gavin Millar ''Pop! – hit or miss?'',〔British Library, Cup 702 1/3.〕 the British hit-parade in the early days of the Beatles; Anthony Rowley (pseudonym of Alan Blaikley) ''Another Kind of Loving'',〔British Library, Cup 702 1/4.〕 homosexuality in the years when it was still a criminal offence in the UK; Melville Hardiment ''Hooked'',〔British Library, Cup 702 1/5.〕 an enquiry into the extent and nature of drug addiction in the early 1960s. At the same time, as a freelance, Blaikley wrote and narrated several BBC radio programmes, including ''Writing for Children'', in which he interviewed C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Enid Blyton. From 1963 to 1964 Blaikley was a trainee producer with BBC TV Talks Department and worked on the daily current affairs programme ''Tonight''. It had been earlier, during his years as a choir-boy at St-Mary-at-Finchley, that he began to realise that, while his voice was less than brilliant, he did possess a gift for inventing ear-catching melodies. This period as a chorister he regards as his essential musical education.〔Blaikley quoted in ''Writing for the King – Elvis Presley'', FTD Books / Follow That Dream Records (2006), p. 256.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan Blaikley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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