I don't own any Yes albums, though I do have some Police albums (Stewart Copeland)....

James Newton Howard had a band....Michael Kamen's arranged for Pink Floyd (and several others...)

But that's getting a little off-topic. As far as film composers in bands, there's always Craig Armstrong and Massive Attack (and Armstrong's done his share of arrangements for pop music as well). And let's not forget that Mark Mancina was also in Yes along with Trevor Rabin, and that Steve Bartek and Richard Gibbs were both in Oingo Boingo as well.

I don't have any Boingo albums, but I've heard a few of their songs. I think "Insanity" (that's on their 1994 album Boingo) is a masterpiece, despite how much I disagree with what it says. and the stuff I've heard from the Forbidden Zone soundtrack is very enjoyable.

Don't forget that Richard Band toured with a rock group when he was only 13.

I read in the liner notes for the 2cd set of Star Wars: A New Hope, that John Willams was in jazz.

Cancelled tv 7 Days composer was and sort of still is in lik jazz or rock and roll, can't remember and am too lazy to reach across my bed and pick up the cd and open it and find the passage.

I think that's all i know.

Howard Shore should be added to that list, also - strange how most forget his roots at Saturday Night Live.

Other rock 'n rollers branching into film composition: Joe Jackson of "Tucker" and "Queen's Logic" (although he'd probably bristle at being called a 'rock 'n roller'; Stan Ridgway who used to front for Wall of Voodoo has scored independent films - and his work with WofV and his solo work shows he does have a cinematic sensibility.

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Originally posted by LRobHubbard:
It was on the movie version of PINK FLOYD THE WALL, that Kamen met Ray Cooper on which led to his meeting with Gilliam with Brazil - he did do arrangements for the original album, but did addtional work for the film (the orchestral version of "Mother", the Nazi concert band arrangement of "In The Flesh" -- very nice work, which is unavailable except on... well, YOU know the term.

Howard Shore should be added to that list, also - strange how most forget his roots at Saturday Night Live.

Other rock 'n rollers branching into film composition: Joe Jackson of "Tucker" and "Queen's Logic" (although he'd probably bristle at being called a 'rock 'n roller'; Stan Ridgway who used to front for Wall of Voodoo has scored independent films - and his work with WofV and his solo work shows he does have a cinematic sensibility.

"Shark" of the Wild Colonials has done several films - and I'm almost forgetting Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo who's done some excellent work for Wes Anderson and Michael Tolkin... and his score for THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULWINKLE shows he can master an orchestral palate very well.

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I'm amazed nobody mentioned Peter Gabriel, who scored Birdy, Passion and The Long Walk Home. One of his mates from Genesis, keyboardist Tony Banks, wrote The Wicked Lady (with a little help by Christopher Palmer), The Shout, Lorca and the Outlaws and Quicksilver.

And Clint Mansell, from the band Dead Can Dance, scored two movies for director Darren Aronofsky: Pi and the excellent Requiem for a Dream.

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Howard Shore also toured and played with Elton John in the seventies.

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