Randy Couture

Randall Duane Couture (born 22 June 1963 in Everett, Washington, USA) is an American actor, former U.S. Army sergeant, retired mixed martial artist and former collegiate and Greco-Roman wrestler. During his tenures in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), he became a three-time UFC Heavyweight Champion, two-time UFC Light heavyweight Champion, an interim UFC Light heavyweight Champion and the UFC 13 Heavyweight Tournament winner. He is the first of six fighters to hold two UFC championship titles in two different divisions (along with B.J. Penn, Conor McGregor, Georges St-Pierre, Daniel Cormier, and Amanda Nunes).

I know him best as Toll Road in The Expendables film series (2012-16). I obtained Randy's autograph through the mail.

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Big Daddy Kane

Antonio Hardy (born 10 September 1968 in New York City, USA), better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is a Grammy Award-winning American rapper and actor who started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap collective the Juice Crew. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential and skilled MCs in hip hop. His first two albums Long Live the Kane (1988) and It's a Big Daddy Thing (1989) were certified gold by the RIAA. Kane made his acting debut in the 1993 western Posse, directed by Mario Van Peebles.

Big Daddy Kane signed a CD booklet for me after his concert at the O2 ABC in Glasgow on 6 May 2013.

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Jeru the Damaja

Kendrick Jeru Davis, known as Jeru the Damaja (born 14 February 1972 in Brooklyn, New York, USA), is an American rapper and record producer best known for his 1994 debut album The Sun Rises in the East and its 1996 successor Wrath of the Math. He has worked extensively with Guru and DJ Premier of Gang Starr, whom he has known since he was in high school.

Jeru signed the Wrath of the Math CD booklet for me after his concert at the O2 ABC in Glasgow on 9 April 2015.

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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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