David Spear

David Spear (born 23 November 1953 in Newark, New Jersey, USA) is a composer and conductor. He began his career orchestrating many film scores for Elmer Bernstein including Animal House (1978), Airplane! (1980), Heavy Metal (1981), An American Werewolf in London (1981), and Ghostbusters (1984). He composed the score for films including Exterminator 2 (1984), No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder (1987), and Pentathlon (1994).

The soundtrack to No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder was released on CD as a limited edition of 500 units in December 2021. The first 50 copies ordered from Buysoundtrax.com were signed by David. I received my signed copy in February 2022.

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Vince DiCola

Vincent Louis "Vince" DiCola (born 17 October 1957 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American composer, keyboardist and arranger. He has composed scores for films such as Staying Alive (1983), Rocky IV (1985), and The Transformers: The Movie (1986).

In October 2022 I pre-ordered the CD Rocky IV: The Symphonic Rock Suite recorded at the 13th Annual Fimucité Festival in Tenerife, Spain in 2019. This EP is a limited edition release of 500 units and Vince signed the first 50 of these. This was an excellent opportunity to finally obtain the autograph of a musician whose music has meant so much to me.

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Anthony Marinelli

Anthony Marinelli (born 19 March 1959 in Burbank, California, USA) is an American musician, composer and conductor. In his early career, he composed and performed accompaniment on the synthesizer for albums including Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983). Marinelli has also recorded with Lionel Richie, Kenny Loggins, Herb Alpert, Supertramp, The Crystal Method, Billy Childs and James Brown.

Marinelli was a contributor in the production of Quincy Jones' soundtrack for Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985) and composed for Young Guns (1988), Graveyard Shift (1990), Leaving Las Vegas (1996) and Internal Affairs (2000).

In 2020 La-La Land Records released the Graveyard Shift soundtrack as a limited edition CD of 1,000 units, of which a number were signed by Anthony Marinelli, as well as director Ralph S. Singleton, and I ordered a copy from their website.

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Mark Governor

Mark Governor is a composer. His score to Pet Sematary Two (1992) is probably his best known one. He also wrote the score to a number of low-budget and direct-to-video films such as Paradise Motel (1985), The Devestator (1986), Land of Doom (1986) and Beach Ball (1988).

In 2019 La-La Land Records released the Pet Sematary Two soundtrack as a limited edition CD of 1,000 units, of which a number were signed and I ordered a copy directly from their website.

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Harold Faltermeyer

Hans Hugo Harold Faltermeier (born 5 October 1952 in Munich, West Germany), known professionally as Harold Faltermeyer, is a German musician, composer and record producer.

Faltermeyer is best known for composing the "Axel F" theme for the feature film Beverly Hills Cop (1984). This electronic instrumental theme was a big hit in many countries in 1985. He also composed the scores for Fletch (1985), Top Gun (1986), Fatal Beauty (1987), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), The Running Man (1987), Fletch Lives (1989) and Tango & Cash (1989).

I purchased Harold's autograph from RACC Trusted Seller #108 Ilya Zeta in November 2021.

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Harry Manfredini

Harry Manfredini (born 25 August 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American film composer and jazz soloist who has scored more than one hundred films. He is probably best known for composing the score of nine of the Friday the 13th slasher films including the 1980 original. Manfredini also scored a number of other Sean S. Cunningham productions including Here Come the Tigers (1978), Manny's Orphans (1978), Spring Break (1983), the House series (1985-1992) and Deep Star Six (1989). Other credits include the Wes Craven films Swamp Thing (1982), The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985) and Wishmaster (1997).

I bought the signed CD of the Friday the 13th Part 2 & 3 score directly from the La-La Land Records online store.

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Richard Bellis

Richard Roe Bellis (born 3 April 1946 in Pasadena, California, USA) is an American composer. I know him best for composing the score for the 1990 mini-series Stephen King's It. Bellis is a former President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, former governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy Awards) a USC lecturer and the composer of music for numerous TV movies.

I purchased a signed copy of the It soundtrack CD from Creature Features who are based in Burbank, California. They organised a Q&A and signing session with Benjamin Wallfisch and Richard Bellis in November 2017 and sold a limited number of signed copies through their website.

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Brian Tyler

Brian Tyler (born 8 May 1972 in Orange County, California, USA) is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, conductor, arranger, DJ and producer. Tyler's scores include Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Rambo (2008), The Expendables trilogy (2010-14), Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) with Danny Elfman. He also re-arranged the current fanfare of the Universal Pictures logo (composed by Jerry Goldsmith) and the updated Marvel Studios logo, which debuted with Thor: The Dark World. He composed the score of five installments of The Fast and the Furious franchise.

I purchased signed Rambo and The Expendables soundtrack CDs from Buysoundtrax.com around the time both albums were released.

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Giorgio Moroder

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (born 26 April 1940 in Urtijëi, South Tyrol, Italy) is an Italian singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer. Moroder is known as the "Father of Disco" (he produced huge hits for Donna Summer during the late-1970s disco era) and is credited with pioneering Italo disco and electronic dance music. His work with synthesizers heavily influenced several music genres such as new wave, techno and house music.

I have always known him best for his contributions to soundtracks of such films as Midnight Express (1978), Flashdance (1983), Scarface (1983), Electric Dreams (1984), Top Gun (1986), Over the Top (1987), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and Rambo III (1988).

I met Giorgio after his concert at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow on 4 April 2019 when he signed my Over the Top CD inlay, which had been signed by Frank Stallone the year before.

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Bill Conti

William Conti (born 13 April 1942 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA) is an American composer and conductor best known for his film scores. These include Rocky (1976) and four of its sequels, the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981), the 1980s hit television series Dynasty, and The Right Stuff (1985). The latter earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He also received nominations in the Best Original Song category for "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky and for the title song of For Your Eyes Only, which was sung by Sheena Easton. He was the musical director at the Academy Awards a record nineteen times.

Conti composed the score of ten Sylvester Stallone films. In addition to five of the Rocky films the following productions have a Bill Conti score: F.I.S.T. (1978), Paradise Alley (1978), Victory (known as Escape to Victory in the UK and other territories) (1981), Lock Up (1989) and Avenging Angelo (2002).

Other favourites of mine include The Karate Kid (1984), the TV series North & South (1985), Masters of the Universe (1987) and Inferno (known as Desert Heat in Europe)(1999).

The signed press photo below was obtained through the mail. The signed Inferno CD booklet was purchased from Buysoundtrax.com.

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