Alan Parker (born in 1944, in Matlock, Derbyshire) is a guitarist and composer best known for his work in the band Blue Mink.Trained by Julian Bream at London's Royal Academy of Music. Was a successful session guitarist in the late 60's also went to play with his own band The Congregation. Much of Parker's session work has gone uncredited but recently he has been named as the electric guitarist on Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man.

He also played on The Walker Brothers's No Regrets.

He was composer Jerry Goldsmith's orchestrator for many years and was called on by Howard Shore to help him out with some of the music for The Lord of the Rings. Parker is now a successful composer for film and TV including the tune to ITN's News At Ten, Van Der Valk, Rhodes, What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Coast for the BBC.

He has worked with Donovan, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Dusty Springfield, Tony Bennett, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and others.

External links

• Big Jim Sullivan's notes on Alan Parker
• Alan Parker on IMDb