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A few months ago I've started a thread about Roy Budd including many comprehensive posts, some dealing about the Phantom project as well. Sadly, this thread has disappeared completely. What happened to it?
According to Geoff Leonard, Roy Budd finished recording the music right before he died. - I don't know why it was necessary to hire Carl Davis to write another score. - Roy Budd was very proud of his own score, by the way. His widow tried to sell the music but asked too much money for it. I guess, some day, we'll see the soundtrack released anyway.
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As to Roy's wife trying to sell Roy's version of the Phantom, that is untrue! She would never let go of that production. What she did try to do was get someone to produce it, and at one point Scorvase was going to do it, but had other projects going on at the time.
Roy had the only original 35mm black and white film in existence, and had it restored with the original colors added (yes there were color tints in the original) I have a copy and it is amazing what he did with the score! Carl Davis's score really doesn't compare to Roy's version. It was over eighty minutes long (the score) one continues piece of music. Dudley Moore was asked to conduct the music, but didn't feel up to it. Sadly, a week before it made his premier Roy passed away.
One of these days it will be shown as Sylvia (Roy's Widow) is still interested in having it being performed with a full orchestra.
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This is all interesting stuff - thanks for bringing this thread up to date, Peter.
I believe I'm right in thinking that you are Roy's brother. If you use the search facility on this forum, you will see that Roy has a large following on this Message Board!
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As to Roy's wife trying to sell Roy's version of the Phantom, that is untrue! She would never let go of that production. What she did try to do was get someone to produce it, and at one point Scorvase was going to do it, but had other projects going on at the time.
Roy had the only original 35mm black and white film in existence, and had it restored with the original colors added (yes there were color tints in the original) I have a copy and it is amazing what he did with the score! Carl Davis's score really doesn't compare to Roy's version. It was over eighty minutes long (the score) one continues piece of music. Dudley Moore was asked to conduct the music, but didn't feel up to it. Sadly, a week before it made his premier Roy passed away.
One of these days it will be shown as Sylvia (Roy's Widow) is still interested in having it being performed with a full orchestra.
I'm sorry, Peter, for having spread a wrong information which I took for a fact. I had it from somedoday who posts on this board, too. And I thought it was 100% reliable. I am a great admirer of your late brothers music and I do wish somebody can pull the things together and release the Phantom score!
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I had the honour to meet and also interview Roy, shortly before his far to early passing, he was great, very funny and bubbly, he had just finished phantom of the opera at this time and was so proud of the music, I was saddened by his death and also mortified when they did not use what he thought was his finest work for film, I met his widow a few months later at a gathering for the original music from the movies magazine when john williams was the editor (the good old days) we chatted and I found out she did have the score or a recording of I think, and there were problems concerning its ownership, what i do not know, She is French I believe and was going to France after the function, I am not sure but I think what she was saying was she was being pressured by people within the industry to give them the score, I hope she did not do it, in my opinion a lot of hangers on made money out of Roys genius, and took advantage of a really lovely person,
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Roy had the only original 35mm black and white film in existence, and had it restored with the original colors added
Could you enlarge on this please? How did Roy come to have the only 35mm print of the film? Did he himself pay to have it restored?
Roy told me that he paid 35,000 pounds for it. I forget where he found it? Yes he paid to have it restored.
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I had the honour to meet and also interview Roy, shortly before his far to early passing, he was great, very funny and bubbly, he had just finished phantom of the opera at this time and was so proud of the music, I was saddened by his death and also mortified when they did not use what he thought was his finest work for film, I met his widow a few months later at a gathering for the original music from the movies magazine when john williams was the editor (the good old days) we chatted and I found out she did have the score or a recording of I think, and there were problems concerning its ownership, what i do not know, She is French I believe and was going to France after the function, I am not sure but I think what she was saying was she was being pressured by people within the industry to give them the score, I hope she did not do it, in my opinion a lot of hangers on made money out of Roys genius, and took advantage of a really lovely person,
You are right! There are many people that are making money off of Roy's recordings, especially the people who are releasing his film scores on CD. I will not mention their names, but Sylvia does not get any of the royalties from them. She has been fighting it for years now.
I have many recordings of Roy, some since he was six years old playing piano. I miss him dearly, and I hope someday the public will hear the brilliant score that he did for the Phantom.
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This is all interesting stuff - thanks for bringing this thread up to date, Peter.
I believe I'm right in thinking that you are Roy's brother. If you use the search facility on this forum, you will see that Roy has a large following on this Message Board!
And if you are, please hang around - some of us are huge fans and it would be grand to have such a close link to a great composer and performer.
I found this site by accident, and it is very nice to hear some good things about Roy. If anyone has any question they would like me to answer, just ask, and I will do my best to answer them. Music or otherwise!
Here is my e-mail in case anyone wants to contact me personally. .budd@sbcglobal.net">p.budd@sbcglobal.net
TG
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ROY BUDD.............ONLY ONE WORD FOR HIM........GENIUS......and along with John Barry and Ron Goodwin this trio of English Greats must never be forgotten.....Go and buy the DVD of Phantom of the Opera with Roy Budds score and it will prove beyond doubt that he really was a musical genius .....he could anything and everything musically.....with the greatest of ease.....
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