Description: Kevin Sargent is a film and television composer based in London, best known for his work on The Hour and We'll Take Manhattan.
Never meet your heroes, eh? Nothing could have been further from the truth when I was invited to Rome to work with one of my few all-time idols, the late Ennio Morricone . We were to record at Forum Music Village Studios , on what would sadly prove to be one of il maestro’s final projects.
I’ve adored his deeply-felt, highly idiosyncratic music since I was a kid – Once Upon a Time in America , The Mission , The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , even The Humanoid – and his immense influence can be heard in so much of my own work. If ever I found myself stuck for an emotional approach, I would ask myself ‘What would Ennio do?’
So as an utter fan-boy to finally encounter the man, it was a thrill to find he was everything that I could expect: completely focussed, a supreme musician and – once he realised I was a fellow composer and not some advertising exec – wonderfully gracious and warm.