George Fenton, born George Richard Ian Howe Fenton in Bromley, Kent, England, on
October 19, 1949, is an English composer. He learned guitar at age 8 and studied
organ with Peter Whitehouse before studying under ethnomusicologist John Leach.
His recording career began in 1969 with his single cover of the Beatles'
“Maxwell's Silver Hammer”, which reached number 6 on the Swedish Kvällstoppen
chart and spent two weeks at Number 1 on Tio i Topp in January 1970. He achieved
his scoring breakthrough with Richard Attenborough's 1982 biopic Gandhi, earning
an Academy Award nomination for...