16 Facts About Jeff Wayne

Jeffry Wayne was born on 1 July 1943 and is an American composer, musician and lyricist.

Jeff Wayne composed numerous television themes, including Good Morning Britain, ITV's The Big Match and World of Sport, and the BBC's Sixty Minutes.

Jeff Wayne wrote feature film and documentary film scores and was musical director for various artists.

Jeff Wayne published a book called The Book of Tennis and created, produced and scored eight thirty-minute episodes of The Book of Tennis Chronicles that was distributed by Fox Sports in approximately twenty countries, and was broadcast in the US on the Tennis Channel between 2005 and 2008.

Jeff Wayne was born on 1 July 1943, in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States.

Jeff Wayne's father, Jerry Wayne, was an American actor, singer, and theatre producer.

Jeff Wayne spent four years of his childhood in the UK when his father played romantic gambler Sky Masterson in the original West End musical production of Guys and Dolls.

Jeff Wayne graduated from Grant High School, then from Los Angeles Valley College with a journalism degree.

Jeff Wayne played keyboards in local bands and coached tennis to support himself.

In 1966, Jeff Wayne composed the score for his father's West End musical Two Cities based on Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities which ran at London's Palace Theatre.

Jeff Wayne provided the score for the 1977 action thriller Golden Rendezvous, which starred Richard Harris.

Jeff Wayne composed music for the Fry's Turkish Delight advertisement in 1981, the theme for Good Morning Britain in 1982 on TV-am, and music for the 1984 album Beyond the Planets, Kevin Peek and Rick Wakeman's progressive rock recording of Holst's orchestral suite.

Jeff Wayne created and produced eight half-hour episodes and scored its music.

In 1999, Jeff Wayne represented Great Britain in the Austria Cup in Spain, and achieved an ITF world ranking in his age group.

In 2008 Jeff Wayne was elected into the International Lawn Tennis Club of Great Britain.

Jeff Wayne has played in numerous fundraising pro-am tournaments, including for Muscular dystrophy and Save the Children.