John Du Prez
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
John Du Prez is a musician and composer best known as a past member of
1980's multi-hit New Wave Salsa group Modern Romance
(1981-83). The band achieved eight top-forty hits and two hit albums
and John - who played trumpet with
Modern Romance - even had a song named
after him:
'Who Is John Du Prez?', the b-side to the group's hit 'Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White'.
John quit the band in 1984 and concentrated on composing music scores for films like the Rob Lowe vehicle, Oxford Blues (1984), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). He has since collaborated with ex- Modern Romance frontman David Jaymes a number of times, most notably on the feature film Fascination (2004), and their single 'Best Years of Our Lives' featured in Shrek (2001).
John is friend to Eric Idle and has worked with him on numerous Monty Python projects including Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) and Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983). He and Eric wrote and performed the song 'Really Nice Day' in the animated movie The Wild (2006).
John quit the band in 1984 and concentrated on composing music scores for films like the Rob Lowe vehicle, Oxford Blues (1984), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). He has since collaborated with ex- Modern Romance frontman David Jaymes a number of times, most notably on the feature film Fascination (2004), and their single 'Best Years of Our Lives' featured in Shrek (2001).
John is friend to Eric Idle and has worked with him on numerous Monty Python projects including Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) and Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983). He and Eric wrote and performed the song 'Really Nice Day' in the animated movie The Wild (2006).
