Biography

Howard Goodall was educated at New College School, Stowe School and Lord Williams's School. A boy chorister, he studied music at Christ Church, Oxford, where he achieved a First. He became known to the public for composing the theme tunes to popular BBC comedy series such as The Black Adder (1983), Red Dwarf (1988) and The Vicar of Dibley (1994). He has also presented educational programmes on music, such as 20th Century Greats (2004) and Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution with Howard Goodall (2017). He is particularly noted as an expert on the music of The Beatles.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

There are those who say that if music has mass appeal it can't also be music of great significance or depth. What The Beatles proved once and for all is that this idea is hopelessly and absurdly wrong.

There are very, very few composers in history whose work changed all the music that followed it: Beethoven (Ludwig van Beethoven) was one, Wagner (Richard Wagner) was another. I believe that posterity will add to their select ranks The Beatles.

After Farage [Nigel Farage], Johnson [Boris Johnson] is the most divisive - and outside the shrinking parish of the Tory faithful - most loathed politician in Britain. The idea that he'd 'unite the country' (post-Brexit minus Scotland & N.I.) is off the dial delusion.

Henry Purcell was the finest home-grown composer England produced before Edward Elgar.