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Francis Monkman (Anthony Francis Keigwin Monkman) was born on 9 June, 1949 in Hampstead, London, England, is an English composer (1949–2023). Discover Francis Monkman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Anthony Francis Keigwin Monkman
Occupation Songwriter · musician · film score composer
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 9 June, 1949
Birthday 9 June
Birthplace Hampstead, London, England
Date of death 12 May, 2023
Died Place N/A
Nationality London, England

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1949

Anthony Francis Keigwin Monkman (9 June 1949 – 12 May 2023) was an English rock, classical and film score composer, and a founding member of both the progressive rock band Curved Air and the classical/rock fusion band Sky.

Francis Monkman was the son of Kenneth Monkman, an authority on the writer Laurence Sterne and Vita née Duncombe Mann.

He was a pupil at Westminster School, where he studied organ and harpsichord, later studying at the Royal Academy of Music, winning the Raymond Russell prize for virtuosity on the harpsichord and becoming a member of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

Wanting to experiment with more spontaneous music forms, Monkman learned how to play guitar and began to associate himself with rock music.

1960

In the late 1960s he founded the rock band Sisyphus, which evolved into the pioneering band Curved Air.

Monkman played on their first three albums, doubling on keyboards and guitar and exploring his interest in jamming, overtones, natural harmonies and freer aspects of musicality.

With group violinist Darryl Way, Monkman also contributed the bulk of the band's composing, although he and Way rarely collaborated.

1972

Differences of opinion with Way ultimately led to Monkman's departure from the band following the release of Phantasmagoria (1972).

Curved Air singer Sonja Kristina has commented that "(Francis likes) jamming ... real 'out there' cosmic rock jamming. And that is not Darryl at all ... He's a very disciplined perfectionist, he likes things to be as precise and exquisite as possible. Whereas Francis is completely the opposite way; he just wants to play and things just come out of the cosmos".

After leaving Curved Air, Monkman contributed to the Renaissance album Prologue (1972), worked with Al Stewart and contributing to the album Past, Present and Future (1973) as well as Lynsey de Paul on her Surprise album and toured with the Shadows on their 20 Golden Greats Tour (1977).

1974

Monkman returned briefly to Curved Air for a 1974 tour intended to pay off the group's outstanding tax bill, which resulted in the release of the 1975 concert album Live, but departed again at the end of the tour.

1977

Also in 1977, he collaborated with Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno on the project 801.

1978

In 1978, he played all keyboards on Brian Bennett's solo album Voyage.

In 1978, Monkman became a member of classical/rock music fusion band Sky alongside guitarists John Williams and Kevin Peek, bass player Herbie Flowers and drummer/percussionist Tristan Fry.

His keyboard work with Sky included extensive classical or classically-inspired harpsichord playing (highlighted on the band's electric version of Bach's "Toccata", which reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart, and secured Sky a Top of the Pops appearance), piano, and a variety of synthesizer approaches including progressive rock complexity and psychedelic drones.

During his time with the band, Monkman was arguably also their most prolific composer and arranger.

For their debut album, he wrote the non-hit single "Cannonball" and the 20-minute long second-side composition "Where Opposites Meet" (which was intended to combine and display the band's diverse influences).

On their second album, he performed a version of Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Gavotte & Variations" as an absolutely straight classical solo harpsichord rendition (further cementing the place of classical music in the band's repertoire) and composed a second side-long twenty-minute long-form composition ("FIFO", for which the title and musical structure was inspired by computer data processing, and on which Monkman also played distorted psychedelic guitar alongside the more formal parts performed by Peek and Williams).

During his time with Sky, Monkman had continued to release solo recordings which mingled original composition with film and television soundtracks and library music.

His 1978 album Energism included the electronic "Achievements of Man", from which extracts were used as the theme to the BBC programme Think Again.

He also composed the piece "Current Affairs", used by Channel 4 as the introduction to Engineering Announcements, provided by the IBA.

He would also become known as a synthesizer demonstrator on programs such as the BBC's Tomorrow's World.

1980

In 1980, Monkman's soundtrack to the British film The Long Good Friday was so successful that he opted to amicably leave Sky in order to concentrate on television and soundtrack work.

At around the same time, he resumed performances of classical harpsichord music.

1981

In 1981, Monkman released an art/progressive rock album called Dweller on the Threshold.

This was the first album on which he had sung lead vocals; it also featured Camel's Andy Latimer (guitar) and former Whitesnake drummer Dave Dowle, as well as singers Graham Layden and Julia Rathbone.

2001

After a 20-year break, Monkman started to release further albums again at the start of the 21st century, beginning with 2001's 21st Century Blues.

Monkman died from cancer on 12 May 2023, at the age of 73.

Monkman played guitar as well as keyboards in Curved Air, switching between them when playing live.

According to the sleeve notes for the second Sky album, Sky 2, he also played additional guitar parts on his composition "FIFO", alongside John Williams and Kevin Peek.