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KPM Music is a company that creates and provides library music that was originally known as KPM Musichouse. It was formed by the merger of KPM (the initials of Keith-Prowse-Maurice, which was then a division of EMI) and Music House (a company that EMI acquired in 1997).
KPM Music Recorded Library released many recordings of library music by composers such as Alan Hawkshaw. [11] Today, KPM is owned by Sony Music Publishing which acquired EMI Music Publishing in 2012. In 1981, the Keith Prowse agency opened its first office outside the UK in New York City and a further office was established in Dublin in 1982.
American sports fans will find a lot of Mansfield's and other KPM composers' music used on NFL Films team highlights and Super Bowl documentaries. American sports journalist Jon Bois uses Mansfield's work ("Love De Luxe", "Style City") in his videos.
"Heavy Action" is a musical piece composed by Johnny Pearson for KPM Music.Composed in 1970, and featuring a strong brass and string fanfare opening, "Heavy Action" soon became a well established sporting theme tune, most associated in the United Kingdom as the theme for Superstars [1] and in the United States as the theme music for ABC and ESPN's Monday Night Football. [2]
Hawkshaw worked extensively for the KPM production music company in the 1950s to the 1970s, composing and recording many stock tracks that have been used extensively in film and TV. He was the composer of a number of theme tunes including Grange Hill (originally library music recorded in Munich known as "Chicken Man") and Countdown.
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He was also house conductor for KPM in the 1960s. [3] Some of the library music pieces were also issued as commercial recordings - The New Big Sound of the Laurie Johnson Orchestra (1963) and The Big New Sound Strikes Again (1965) on Denis Preston's Record Supervision label, and the Two Cities Suite (1966), which was licensed to Pye Records. [6]
Doe claimed that on Sept. 7, 2000, she went to Radio City Music Hall to try to attend the VMAs. The then-13-year-old, who had no ticket, couldn’t get in and watched from outside on a jumbotron.