My friend and neighbour Colin Tully, who has died of
cancer aged 66, was a composer and instrumentalist who wrote the
music for two films, That Sinking Feeling (1979) and Gregory’s Girl (1980).
In a musical career that had to share time with his parallel vocation as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, Colin was a member of the Glasgow soul and funk band Cado Belle, played and recorded with the folk
Singer and guitarist John Martyn, and accompanied Ireland’s Eurovision-winning entry of 1980, Johnny Logan’s What’s Another Year?, appearing with him at the finals in The Hague. The entertaining story of these and other episodes is told in a book, Earworm, which Colin managed to complete just before his death.