Biography
Ronald Hazlehurst (13 March 1928 – 1 October 2007) was an English composer and conductor. He joined the BBC in 1961 as a staff arranger and became Light Entertainment Musical Director in 1968.
Hazlehurst composed incidental music for The Likely Lads (1964) and theme tunes for numerous BBC sitcoms and other programmes, including The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976), To the Manor Born (1979), Are You Being Served?, Last of the Summer Wine and Yes Minister. He also served as musical director for the Eurovision Song Contest on three occasions.
