Malcolm Lockyer

Malcolm Neville Lockyer (5 October 1923 – 28 June 1976) was a British film composer and conductor.

Biography Lockyer was born in Greenwich, London, England. when both ensembles were formed in 1967.

Lockyer was the musical director for the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest staged at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Unusually however, as noted in John Kennedy O'Connor's The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, he did not conduct the home entry for the UK (it was conducted by David Mackay instead). Lockyer had taken part in the first UK selection process to find Britain's debut Eurovision entry in 1957. He performed an orchestral version of the song "All", which won the contest. However, Patricia Bredin went on to perform the song at the final in Frankfurt with musical direction by Eric Robinson.

Shortly before his death in 1976, he conducted The Million Airs Orchestra in 26 Glenn Miller tribute concerts.

Selected filmography

Strictly Confidential (1959) Operation Cupid (1960) Sandy the Seal (shot in 1965, released in 1969) Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) Ten Little Indians (1965) The Pleasure Girls (1965) Our Man in Marrakesh (1966) Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1966) Island of Terror (1966) The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) Five Golden Dragons (1967) Deadlier than the Male (1967) Night of the Big Heat (1967) The Long Day's Dying (1968) Eve (1968)