Biography
John Cameron was born in Woodford, Essex, on 20 March 1944 and studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he took part in the Footlights. In the 1960s he arranged pop recordings, above all for Donovan, including Sunshine Superman, and scored a hit with his group CCS with an instrumental version of Whole Lotta Love. He composed film scores including Kes (1969) and A Touch of Class, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. For Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg he arranged the concept album of Les Misérables and created the orchestrations of the musical, which won a Drama Desk Award. With the Gipsy Kings he wrote the score of the musical Zorro (2008).
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