Biography
David A. Hughes is an English composer and musician. Born in 1960 in Liverpool, he began his career in the late 1970s and 1980s playing keyboards in post-punk and electronic bands including Dalek I Love You and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
From the mid-1980s he composed soundtracks for films and television. Early credits include C.H.U.D. (1984, as Cooper Hughes). He frequently collaborated with John Murphy until 1999; their joint work includes the score for Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). Hughes has since composed alone on titles such as The Bachelor (1999), Bob the Butler (2005), Hogfather (2007) and The Colour of Magic (2008). He has also produced independent feature films through Red Union Films.
