John Lockley - Music
For a number of years in the late sixties and early seventies I was
involved, first with the Cambridge University Twentieth Century Church Light
Music Group (what a mouthful!), which was later abbreviated to 'Twentieth
Century'. Several of their records and tapes contain music that I'd composed,
most notably 'A Folk Passion' (RL305), which was a complete LP of a
modern folk/rock oratorio about the crucifixion.
Other recordings containing some of my songs include the LP 'Hosanna - A
Portrait of Jesus' (RL307), and the cassette tape 'Travelling
Salvation Road Show'.(TCRW1)
Two of my songs - 'In the long and lonely days' (which is on the 'Hosanna'
record - words by Peter Casey), and my arrangement of 'Do you see that man' by
Peter Casey and Alan Thomas, are published in 'Songs of Worship' by
Scripture Union (ISBN 0 85421 865 3).
After leaving Cambridge, some of
the original members of 'Twentieth Century' founded 'Reflection' and its
recording arm 'Reflection Records', and I was active with them for a time.
- To discover what Reflection
has developed into (and for an amazing web site including dowloadable MIDI
files), click here:- Reflection
- the web site
The Cambridge University
group 'Twentieth Century' continued its existance at Cambridge
as 'C20' which then became Ark,
which now has two aspects - the music arm (with two bands, one light rock and
the other acid-jazz) and the acting arm. To find out more about them (or to
book them for a performance) click here:- Ark - the web site
- In 1982 I wrote a complete
folk/rock/classical musical on the life of Martin Luther. Called simply 'Luther!'
it was originally written for a musically talented school and features an
orchestra extended by a rock band. If you are interested in putting it on,
please click here to E-mail me
- I’m
now actively writing music for use in church services – hymns,
songs, anthems and other music.