Louis Clark (born 27
February 1947,
Kempson, Bedford,
Bedfordshire,
England)
is a British musical arranger and keyboard player.
He trained at Leeds College of Music. He
was the conductor of the orchestra and choir hired to back Electric Light Orchestra's
sound, introduced on their album Eldorado
in 1974. He assisted Jeff Lynne and Richard
Tandy in writing string arrangements as well. He later played
synthesizers for the band during their Time
tour. In 1983 he returned to conduct the strings on the Secret
Messages album. In 1986 he played Keyboards
with ELO on their small number of live dates. Later he also joined the
tour for ELO Part II in
celebration of the band's 25th Anniversary.
In the early eighties he conducted the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra on a series of records under the title Hooked
on Classics.
Discography
- Per-spek-tiv (1979)
- Hooked on Classics (1981)
- Hooked on Classics 2: Can't Stop the Classics
- Hooked on Classics 3: Journey through the Classics
- Hooked on Number Ones: 100 Non-Stop Greats(2002)
- Original Classics in a Modern Style,
available from Debonair Records.
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