Richard Neville Hartley, born July 28, 1944, in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire,
England, is an English composer and arranger. He began his career in the early
1970s as a member of the four-piece house band for the original stage production
of The Rocky Horror Show. Hartley gained prominence arranging the score for the
London stage production, the 1975 film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show,
and its 1981 sequel Shock Treatment. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he composed
film scores including Galileo in 1975, Aces High in 1976, The Lady Vanishes in
1979, Bad Timing in 1980, and ...