German composer Hans Zimmer is one of the word’s most decorated film and TV composers and music producers. If you have watched the 1994’s The Lion King or 2021’s Dune, you are familiar with his Academy Award-winning work.

As the head of the film music division of DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation studios, he has shaped the sound of such hit film franchises as director Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy and Pirates of the Caribbean, among others.

While his work is familiar to movie watchers, his earlier incarnation as a keyboardist in the U.K. new wave act The Buggles is less well known. He appeared in the video for the group’s global hit track Video Killed the Radio Star and contributed to recordings by such charting groups as Shriekback and The Damned. Since he began fus

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