Born in 1943 in Brighton, England
- Lewis was inspired to enter the world of TV music when he saw Lawrence Olivier’s films with music by William Walton when he was 12.
- Lewis chose to avoid professional music training, instead opting to leave school at 15 to work in music publishing.
- Lewis wrote his first TV score at age 19 and has been working busily for British TV ever since.
- Fun fact: among other shows, Lewis’s production library music can be heard on Antiques Roadshow and SpongeBob SquarePants.1
Sources
- “Biography,” Paul Lewis Composer, accessed November 7, 2019, https://www.paullewiscomposer.com/index/biography.html.