{"id":128060,"date":"2025-07-06T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=128060"},"modified":"2025-07-06T11:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:33:36","slug":"qa-with-nick-ingman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=128060","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A with Nick Ingman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=128060\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=128060\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-128061 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25A0A381-2B3E-47E6-A74A-44EF2E3F371B-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25A0A381-2B3E-47E6-A74A-44EF2E3F371B-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25A0A381-2B3E-47E6-A74A-44EF2E3F371B-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25A0A381-2B3E-47E6-A74A-44EF2E3F371B-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25A0A381-2B3E-47E6-A74A-44EF2E3F371B-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25A0A381-2B3E-47E6-A74A-44EF2E3F371B-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25A0A381-2B3E-47E6-A74A-44EF2E3F371B.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exclusive Interview by Karen Beishuizen<br \/>\nPhotos courtesy of Nick Ingman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nick Ingman is an English composer who worked with Cliff Richard, Elton John and Lionel Richie. He wrote the tune for the TV show \u201cKeeping Up Appearances\u201d and also orchestrated and conducted for major movies: \u201cShakespeare in Love\u201d, \u201cBilly Elliott\u201d and \u201cCaptain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin\u201d. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. Currently he works with the Chinese band Soundtoy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>KB: Did you always want to be an arranger and composer growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was a teenager I listened to a lot of current pop records which I loved. I gradually started to listen to the backing on these records. Who played the instruments? Where did they do it? How did they organize themselves? It was my first inkling that there was \u201csomething\u201d behind the singers &#8211; I, of course, was talking about arrangers \u2014 that\u2019s an interesting job I thought , a sort of back room boy &#8211; never wanted to be in he foreground.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: In your first job as an assistant arranger you worked with Sir Cliff Richard. How did you get the job? You worked with Sir Cliff in the 90s as well?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Through a contact of my father, who was a musician and journalist , I got an interview with a top record producer called Norrie Paramor. I was hired as a tea boy. One of Norrie&#8217;s biggest starts was Cliff Richard and Norrie gave me some musical jobs to do including writing arrangements for Cliff.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t remember any particular titles but I didn&#8217;t make any big records. After Norrie died I became Cliff\u2019s MD and we worked together for twenty years. We did a huge tour in Australia and New Zealand and a number of shows at The Albert Hall in London.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: You composed the theme song for &#8220;Keeping Up Appearances&#8221;: Where did you get the inspiration from for the tune or did it pop up just like that?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had worked with a BBC TV top Light Comedy producer and he commissioned me to write a number of signature tunes, When he told me about Hyacinth Bucket, I immediately thought of pomp and circumstances or anything by Elgar that was very British. I knew it had to be a march, so I played around with some ideas and came up with that tune!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: I read you were employed by American radio stations to provide easy listening tracks: how does that work? What is the process?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the 1970s American radio stations were divided into AM ( current rock songs and younger audience) and FM which was basically elevator music for the old ones and played instrumental versions of the hits in slightly watered down versions. The FM music was known as Beautiful Music and was financed by the Mormon church. I had written a few arrangements for them but then they asked me to do more and in the end I recorded hundreds of titles.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Your work as an orchestrator and conductor for movies. What is your favorite collaboration and why?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So many &#8211; probably \u201cShakespeare In Love\u201d composed by Stephen Warbeck. It was a sleeper hit and became a huge movie.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: You worked with so many artists like Sir Elton John, David Bowie, Annie Lennox. What is your fondest memory?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Again so many &#8211; often the bigger the star, the less hassle and so more good music. The lesser talents tend to be edgy which makes the process less fruitful. Probably Elton John, making the soundtrack for the stage version of \u201cBilly Elliot\u201d or working with Lionel Richie possibly.<br \/>\nKB: If you could make an album yourself with 7 of your most favorite songs you worked on as an arranger: What songs would you pick?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cPearl\u201d \u2013 Sade<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>\u201cNothing Compares to U\u201d \u2013 Sinead O\u2019\u00c7onnor<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s Raining Men\u201d \u2013 Gerri Halliwell<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>\u201cIt Must Be Love\u201d \u2013 Labi Siffre<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>\u201cFeel So Different\u201d \u2013 Sinead O\u2019Connor<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>\u201cHigh\u201d \u2013 Lighthouse Family<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>\u201cInner City Blues\u201d \u2013 Working Week<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: You work with artists and you work with orchestras. Which do you prefer the most and what is the difference?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chalk and cheese: with an orchestra you are a policeman, with an artist a therapist.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: What are you currently up to?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Working with a Chinese band called Soundtoy, rearranging some of their hits with orchestras.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Check out Nick\u2019s website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickingman.co.uk\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpforms-container wpforms-container-full\" id=\"wpforms-126533\"><form id=\"wpforms-form-126533\" class=\"wpforms-validate wpforms-form wpforms-ajax-form\" data-formid=\"126533\" method=\"post\" enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\" action=\"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F128060\" data-token=\"aad802805d30a6a75ea2917a9f1bb412\" data-token-time=\"1778482220\"><noscript class=\"wpforms-error-noscript\">Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.<\/noscript><div class=\"wpforms-field-container\">\t\t<div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_4-container\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-text\"\n\t\t\tdata-field-type=\"text\"\n\t\t\tdata-field-id=\"4\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_4\" >or Message Comment<\/label>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_4\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium\" name=\"wpforms[fields][4]\" >\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-name\" data-field-id=\"1\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\">Name <span class=\"wpforms-required-label\">*<\/span><\/label><div class=\"wpforms-field-row wpforms-field-medium\"><div class=\"wpforms-field-row-block wpforms-first wpforms-one-half\"><input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1\" class=\"wpforms-field-name-first wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][1][first]\" required><label for=\"wpforms-126533-field_1\" class=\"wpforms-field-sublabel after\">First<\/label><\/div><div class=\"wpforms-field-row-block wpforms-one-half\"><input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-last\" class=\"wpforms-field-name-last wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][1][last]\" required><label for=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-last\" class=\"wpforms-field-sublabel after\">Last<\/label><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_2-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-email\" data-field-id=\"2\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_2\">Email <span class=\"wpforms-required-label\">*<\/span><\/label><input type=\"email\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_2\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][2]\" spellcheck=\"false\" required><\/div><div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_3-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-textarea\" data-field-id=\"3\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_3\">Comment or Message<\/label><textarea id=\"wpforms-126533-field_3\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium\" name=\"wpforms[fields][3]\" ><\/textarea><\/div><script>\n\t\t\t\t( function() {\n\t\t\t\t\tconst style = document.createElement( 'style' );\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle.appendChild( document.createTextNode( '#wpforms-126533-field_4-container { position: absolute !important; 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