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- Birth nameAlan Tudor Blaikley
- Alan Blaikley was born on March 23, 1940 in London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Last Night in Soho (2021), Death Proof (2007) and Grindhouse (2007). He died on July 4, 2022 in Hampstead Garden, London, England, UK.
- Graduated from University College School.
- Songwriting partners with Ken Howard.
- Blaikley's partner from 1978 to 2015 was the translator David Charles Harris (1954-2015), with whom he entered into a civil partnership in 2007.
- Blaikley had long been interested in analytical psychology and, at the instigation of his analyst, mentor and friend, Dr William Kraemer, he trained as a psychotherapist at the Westminster Pastoral Foundation (The Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling). On graduating he ran a private practice from his home between 1981 and 2003. This led to a collaboration between Blaikley and Howard and the maverick psychiatrist R. D. Laing on the cult album Life before Death.
- Blaikley was educated at University College School (UCS), Hampstead, and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read Classical Moderations (Latin and Greek) and English, and was Reviews Editor of the university newspaper, Cherwell.
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