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G. Marq Roswell is an American tech entrepreneur, music supervisor, and film producer based in Los Angeles, California.
Roswell was raised in Los Angeles, California. A sixth-generation Californian. He is a descendant of the del Valle Family of Rancho Camulos in Ventura County.
Roswell's interest and taste in music was shaped by attending the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and witnessing seminal performances by The Who, Otis Redding and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, who famously set his guitar aflame in the finale of his performance. In 1968-69, Roswell worked as a stage manager at the Shrine Exhibition Hall in downtown Los Angeles. It was there that he saw many of the major acts of that era, including the Buffalo Springfield, Albert King, The Grateful Dead, Traffic, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Buffalo Springfield, Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa's backing band), Jimi Hendrix, The Electric Flag, Cream, Buddy Guy, Canned Heat, The Chambers Brothers, Jeff Beck, Iron Butterfly, and Big Brother and the Holding Company, best known as the band which featured Janis Joplin.
Roswell attended UCLA Film School, graduating in 1971.
In 1976, he helped form and manage the band Player, which was signed to Robert Stigwood's RSO Records. The band's platinum single "Baby Come Back" eventually hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, producing a gold album, and tours with Boz Scaggs, Kenny Loggins, Heart, and Eric Clapton. After attending an early screening at Paramount Studios of the Stigwood-produced Saturday Night Fever , with its massive breakout soundtrack by the Bee Gees, Roswell sold his management and publishing interest to partner Paul Palmer and pursued a career as a music supervisor for films.
Roswell found a mentor in top music supervisor Becky Shargo Winding ( Footloose , Urban Cowboy ).
He began his career in music supervision by bringing the Fine Young Cannibals to director Barry Levinson to score and write songs for Tin Men , which became the catalyst for their follow up triple-platinum album The Raw and the Cooked , including the number one hits "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing," which was written for the film.
While overseeing music supervision on The Commitments , Roswell formed and managed a joint venture between Beacon Films and Polygram Publishing (now Universal Music) to develop Irish musical artists and film scores. In that capacity, he was able to sign The Corrs and secure them a deal with Atlantic Records. The band went on to sell 40 million records worldwide.
Roswell produced many score and soundtrack LPs for Beacon; Air Force One , Family Man, Spy Game , Sugar Hill , Bring It On, The Hurricane, Playing God, End of Days, Midnight Clear, Love of The Game, and The Commitments , among others. The Commitments was nominated for a Grammy and sold five million albums worldwide.
After music supervising the Chris Farley vehicle Tommy Boy for Paramount Pictures, Roswell became a consultant for Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video. It was there that he orchestrated a joint venture between Broadway Video and Mercury Records to develop comedy albums and DVDs featuring the live musical guests on Saturday Night Live .
Roswell contributed to the musical landscape of more than 60 feature films, numerous documentaries, television series, and produced many successful score and soundtrack albums. His impressive list of credits includes The Great Debaters , [1] The Hurricane , Man with the Iron Fists, Tommy Boy, Dawn of the Dead , and Wild at Heart .
Roswell also produced many "on-camera" songs for actors in feature films, including Nicolas Cage in Wild at Heart , Kevin Costner in Love of the Game and Keanu Reeves in Sweet November. These production efforts went on to also include many on camera artists appearing on film soundtracks, including Koko Taylor for Wild at Heart and Sharon Jones, the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Alvin Youngblood Heart for The Great Debaters. On The Thing Called Love , set in Nashville song-mills, Roswell hired T Bone Burnett and Steven Soles to produce songs for actors River Phoenix, Sandra Bullock, Samantha Mathis, and Dermot Mulroney. Roswell and T Bone Burnett came together again to produce the end title song for A Midnight Clear , featuring singer Sam Phillips.
In his capacity as a music supervisor, Roswell has worked with many top screen composers, including Tommy Newman, Alexander Desplat, Danny Elfman, Chris Young, Tyler Bates, Harry Gregson-Williams, Mark Isham, James Newton Howard, Angelo Badalamenti, Jerry Goldsmith, Marvin Hamlisch, John Debney, Christophe Beck, Terrance Blanchard, Aaron Zigman, John Frizzell and Graeme Revell.
Roswell has worked with many musical artists including RZA, the Black Keys, Kanye West, Guns N' Roses, Bob Dylan, The Roots, Mos Def, Eminem, Corinne Bailey Rae, Jewel, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Garth Brooks, Limp Bizkit, Korn, and many others in a variety of capacities.
Roswell paid it forward by mentoring and working with some of the top music supervisors in the TV and Film industry today; Randall Poster, Pilar McCurry, Gary Calamar, Thomas Golubic, Robin Urdang, Jennifer Pyken, Karen Rachtman, Carter Little, Dondi Bastone, Helle Huxley, Garth Trinidad, and Adam Swart.
Roswell has also provided his expertise on award winning documentaries; Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Iraq for Sale, and PBS' Circus & Half the Sky. He is the co-executive music producer with Carter Little on Grammy nominated Soundbreaking , the 8-hour documentary series, conceived with and inspired by Sir George Martin. He is currently co-music supervisor with Dondi Baste in the upcoming Apollo Theater documentary, directed by Academy Award winner Roger Ross Williams and produced by Nigel Sinclair of White Horse Pictures.
Roswell co-produced I Saw the Light , directed and written by Marc Abraham, starring Tom Hiddleston, who portrays the legendary singer-songwriter Hank Williams. [2] The soundtrack album was produced by Rodney Crowell, Roswell, Carter Little, and Ray Kennedy.
Roswell is currently the Founder and CEO of TunesMap, makers of a mobile and TV app that contextually organizes and presents high quality content from preferred partners and artists.
Roswell lives in the Pacific Palisades with his wife Karen, and his son, Cal del Valle.
The Bee Gees were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful in popular music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers in the disco music era in the mid- to late 1970s. The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies: Robin's clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the mid- to late 1970s and 1980s. The group wrote all their own original material, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists, and are regarded as one of the most important and influential acts in pop-music history. They have been referred to in the media as The Disco Kings, Britain's First Family of Harmony, and The Kings of Dance Music.
MGM Records was a record label founded by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack recordings of their musical films. It transitioned into a pop music label that continued into the 1970s. The company also released soundtrack albums of the music for some of their non-musical films as well, and on rare occasions, cast albums of off-Broadway musicals such as The Fantasticks and the 1954 revival of The Threepenny Opera. In one instance, MGM Records released the highly successful soundtrack album of a film made by another studio, Columbia Pictures's Born Free (1966).
Robert Colin Stigwood was an Australian-born British-resident music entrepreneur, film producer and impresario, best known for managing Cream, Andy Gibb and the Bee Gees, theatrical productions like Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, and film productions including the successful Grease and Saturday Night Fever. On his death, one obituary judged that he had been for a time the most powerful tycoon in the entertainment industry: "Stigwood owned the record label that issued his artists’ albums and film soundtracks, and he also controlled publishing rights – not since Hollywood's golden days had so much power and wealth been concentrated in the hands of one mogul."
RSO Records was a record label formed by rock and roll and musical theatre impresario Robert Stigwood and record executive Al Coury in 1973. The letters "RSO" stood for the Robert Stigwood Organisation.
Michael den Elzen is a musician and music producer based in Melbourne, Australia. He has performed for over 30 years with many well-known Australian and New Zealand artists, principally as a guitarist, and has contributed music for several Australian movie soundtracks.
Robert John Gaudio is an American songwriter, singer, musician, and record producer, and the keyboardist and backing vocalist of the pop/rock band the Four Seasons. Gaudio wrote or co-wrote and produced the vast majority of the band's music, including hits like "Sherry" and "December, 1963 ". Though he no longer performs with the group, Gaudio and lead singer Frankie Valli remain co-owners of the Four Seasons brand.
Tommy is a 1975 British satirical operetta fantasy drama film written and directed by Ken Russell and based on the Who's 1969 rock opera album Tommy about a "psychosomatically deaf, mute, and blind" boy who becomes a pinball champion and religious leader. The film featured a star-studded ensemble cast, including the band members themselves, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Elton John, and Jack Nicholson.
Tommy Seebach, born Tommy Seebach Mortensen in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a popular Danish singer, composer, organist, pianist and producer. He is best known as front man of Sir Henry and his Butlers and for numerous contributions to the Danish qualifier for the Eurovision Song Contest, the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, which he won three times. He was the father of songwriter/producer Nicolai Seebach and singer/songwriter/producer Rasmus Seebach.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a 1978 American jukebox musical comedy film directed by Michael Schultz, written by Henry Edwards and starring an ensemble cast led by Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees. Depicting the loosely constructed story of a band as they wrangle with the music industry and battle evil forces bent on stealing their instruments and corrupting their hometown of Heartland, the film is presented in a form similar to that of a rock opera, with the songs providing "dialogue" to carry the story. George Burns has most of the spoken lines that act to clarify the plot and provide further narration but there are a few other lines throughout the movie.
Imagine: John Lennon is a soundtrack album of popular music compiled for the 1988 documentary film Imagine: John Lennon from songs written or co-written by John Lennon. Originally released that year as a double album, it now remains available on one CD.
Ray Williams is a British A&R music producer and publisher. He discovered Elton John and introduced him to Bernie Taupin. Williams has been a prominent figure of the music and film industry for many years as a press agent, A&R head, artist manager, film music producer, and publisher. He was the music supervisor of films including The Last Emperor, Absolute Beginners, and Naked Lunch.
Adrian Curtis Gurvitz is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. His prolific songwriting ability has gained him hits with Eddie Money's No. 1 Billboard Mainstream Rock hit "The Love in Your Eyes" and with his own song "Classic", a No. 8 UK hit single, as well as the top 10 UK Rock Chart single "Race with the Devil", with his band the Gun. He also co-wrote the track "Even If My Heart Would Break" from the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack The Bodyguard. His early bands the Gun, Three Man Army and the Baker Gurvitz Army were major influences to the first wave of the British hard rock circuit. Gurvitz also gained notability as a lead guitarist, known for his intricate, hard-driving solos. Gurvitz was placed at No. 9 by Chris Welch of Melody Maker’s "Best Guitarists in the World" list.
The Commitments is a 1991 musical comedy-drama film based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Roddy Doyle. It was directed by Alan Parker from a screenplay written by Doyle, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Set in the Northside of Dublin, the film tells the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, a young music fanatic who assembles a group of working-class youths to form a soul band named "The Commitments". The film is the first in a series known as The Barrytown Trilogy, followed by The Snapper (1993) and The Van (1996).
A jukebox musical is a stage musical or musical film in which a majority of the songs are well-known popular music songs, rather than original music.
Bill Wray is an American musician, composer and producer. His performing career spanned the mid-1970s through the early 1980s. Since then he has written and produced a variety of artists from glam metal to cajun. He is the brother of fellow musician/composer Jim Wray.
Dave Grohl is an American singer, songwriter, and musician whose discography consists of 16 studio albums, six live albums, eight compilation albums, six EPs, and four soundtracks, and also includes his other collaborations and work as a studio musician with 26 additional artists. A large portion of his releases have come as the drummer of Nirvana (1990–1994) and as the frontman of Foo Fighters (1995–present).
Kenny Vance is an American singer, songwriter, and music producer who was a founding member of Jay and the Americans. His career spans from the 1950s to today, with projects ranging from starting doo-wop groups to music supervising to creating solo albums.
Gary Calamar is an American film and television music supervisor, who has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards. Calamar's notable credits include The Man In The High Castle,Six Feet Under, True Blood, House, Weeds, Entourage, Dexter, and Varsity Blues. He also hosted a long-running program on the influential radio station KCRW in Santa Monica, before moving to 88.5 KCSN in September 2018. Calamar is also a songwriter and recording artist.
Fred Mollin is an American and Canadian record producer, musician, film and TV composer, music director, music supervisor, and songwriter. He has produced records for Jimmy Webb, Johnny Mathis, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lamont Dozier and America, and has composed music for Beverly Hills, 90210, Friday the 13th, Forever Knight, Hard Copy, and many more. Mollin rose to prominence early in his career by co-producing Dan Hill's international hit record, "Sometimes When We Touch", in 1977.
Spencer Proffer is an American media and record producer. He is the CEO of Meteor 17, a convergence media production company based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Proffer produced the first heavy metal record, Quiet Riot's Metal Health, to reach the top of the pop charts, selling six million albums. His Children of the Sun collaboration with Billy Thorpe spawned a computer-animated laser choreography of an album in planetariums across North America. Proffer has produced and arranged over 200 albums, many of which have achieved gold and platinum-selling status, produced or executive-produced 17 films as well as supervised and produced music for 135 films and television.
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