Ray Williams(I)
- Music Department
- Actor
Born June 16th. 1947 in Gloucester City England.
Ray Williams has been in the music and film business since the age of 16 when meeting Cathy McGowan, the presenter of legendary UK music show 'Ready Steady Go', who invited him to the show , he became a fixture as an unpaid assistant, Cathy realizing he needed 'a proper job' introduced him to Beatles publicist Brian Sommerville who needed a P.A., Ray took the job and worked with The Kinks, Sonny & Cher and Tommy Roe.
As head of A&R for Liberty Records he placed an advertisement in the NME looking for talent and discovered Elton John and introduced him to lyricist Bernie Taupin, forging one of the most prolific songwriting teams in rock history.
Ray became personal manager for Elton during his first five albums before going on to manage Gerry Rafferty's Stealers Wheel.
Ray has been the music supervisor on more than 70 films, television projects, including the multi Academy Award-winning film (1988) Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor that included Best Original Music Score (David Byrne,Ryuichi Sakamoto & Cong Su') and Bertolucci's 'The Sheltering Sky (1990) that won the Golden Globe Best Original Score composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto with additional music by Richard Horowitz and worked with many composers including Stanley Myers, Hans Zimmer, Alexandre Desplat, Howard Shore, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Eric Serra.
His passion for helping new and emerging talent has lead him to develop a precleared music licensing rights, music supervision platform crumbsmusic.com based in Chapel Hill-Raleigh North Carolina where he now lives .
Ray Williams has been in the music and film business since the age of 16 when meeting Cathy McGowan, the presenter of legendary UK music show 'Ready Steady Go', who invited him to the show , he became a fixture as an unpaid assistant, Cathy realizing he needed 'a proper job' introduced him to Beatles publicist Brian Sommerville who needed a P.A., Ray took the job and worked with The Kinks, Sonny & Cher and Tommy Roe.
As head of A&R for Liberty Records he placed an advertisement in the NME looking for talent and discovered Elton John and introduced him to lyricist Bernie Taupin, forging one of the most prolific songwriting teams in rock history.
Ray became personal manager for Elton during his first five albums before going on to manage Gerry Rafferty's Stealers Wheel.
Ray has been the music supervisor on more than 70 films, television projects, including the multi Academy Award-winning film (1988) Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor that included Best Original Music Score (David Byrne,Ryuichi Sakamoto & Cong Su') and Bertolucci's 'The Sheltering Sky (1990) that won the Golden Globe Best Original Score composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto with additional music by Richard Horowitz and worked with many composers including Stanley Myers, Hans Zimmer, Alexandre Desplat, Howard Shore, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Eric Serra.
His passion for helping new and emerging talent has lead him to develop a precleared music licensing rights, music supervision platform crumbsmusic.com based in Chapel Hill-Raleigh North Carolina where he now lives .
