John Murphy is a prominent British film composer from the city of Liverpool. He is a self taught multi-instrumental musician who began his career in the 1980s working noteably with Orchestral Manouevers in the Dark (OMD) and Heaven 17. Jump to: navigation, search Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Northwest England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary. ... Heaven 17 is a British electropop band originating in Sheffield in the early 1980s. ...

He began composing music for films in the early 1990s and scored his first hit with Leon the Pig Farmer. Together with former OMD member David Hughes he worked on several succesful British movies, enjoying particular success with the soundtrack to 1998's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. David E. Hughes American academic David Hughes (novelist) British novelist Dave Hughes Australian stand-up comic David Hughes (cricketer) English cricketer David B. Hughes Developer of eMystics (see eMystics. ... Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) is a British film directed and written by Guy Ritchie. ...

Since 2000's Snatch, Murphy has been mainly based in Los Angeles. He has produced several prominent and diverse successes, including City By the Sea and Danny Boyle's box-office success 28 Days Later. Snatch may mean: Snatch (weightlifting), a type of weightlifting Snatch (film), a move by director Guy Ritchie a slang term for the vagina; see sexual slang an older CIA term for the practice of rendition This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share... This article is about the largest city in California. ... Danny Boyle (born 20th October 1956) is a film director and producer born in Manchester. ... 28 Days Later is a 2002 post-apocalyptic science fiction movie directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. ...

Awards for his film music include the Silver Award (1st Prize) at Cannes, British D & AD Award, and John has been nominated for an Ivor Novello, an RTS Award, and the Brit Award for Best Soundtrack. He has also composed and produced music for commercials, including campaigns for Reebok, Nike and Apple. Other excerpts from his scores have been released for advertising, in particular In The House, In a Heartbeat from 28 Days Later. Ivor Novello David Ivor Davies (January 15, 1893 – March 6, 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century. ... The Brit Awards are annual United Kingdom pop music awards, considered to be on a par with the Grammys in the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search Reebok International Limited NYSE: RBK is a Fortune 500 company and producer of athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nike, in Greek mythology, was victory, personified as a goddess. ... Jump to: navigation, search Binomial name Malus domestica Borkh. ...