Article: High-scoring double act Samantha Glynne meets the British film industry's hottest composing duo

Cocooned in their state-of-the-art studio in Liverpool, John Murphy, 29, and David Hughes, 32, are Britain's youngest and busiest film composers. They have written seven scores in the past year - more than any other musician in the country - main ly for new film-makers. Their work can be heard this week in Welcome II the Terrordome (see other new releases, left), swiftly followed by Solitaire for Two, A Feast at Midnight and Clockwork Mice. They're the common denominator of the "Brit Pack".

They are an unusual partnership. Hughes, who by the age of 22 had scored a Fellini film - Il Palandini, released on video in Britain as Hearts and Armour - reads computer catalogues voraciously and looks ...

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