Alan Hawkshaw Biography

Session keyboardist and arranger Alan Hawkshaw has worked with Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Dusty Springfield, Barbra Streisand, and Olivia Newton-John. Just as notably, Hawkshaw was a member of Love & Kisses, a campy late ’70s disco outfit that released a trio of albums on Casablanca and scored the theme song for the movie Thank God It’s Friday. Earlier in his career, he was in Emile Ford’s Checkmates and also spent a brief time in the Shadows during the early ’70s, playing on their “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.”Hawkshaw has also done plenty of admirable work on his own. In addition to releasing a number of solo records since the late ’70s, he has scored a number of television themes for British television, including those for Countdown, Love Hurts, and Grange Hill. His score for 1979’s The Silent Witness won the Ivor Novello Award.