Laurie Johnson - The Professionals Boxset

Jul 28 2008 By Bev Bevan

(Edsel)

LAURIE Johnson studied at the Royal College of Music before embarking on a very successful career as a composer of and arranger of TV theme tunes, including The Professionals, The Avengers and This Is Your Life.

His one big success in the pop charts came in 1961, with Sucu Sucu from the TV spy series Top Secret.

This nicely packaged triple-CD boxset has on Disc One music from The Professionals (currently being repeated on ITV4).

Disc two features themes from other TV shows and movie scores, whilst disc three collects together some of Johnson’s more adventurous works for military bands.