Harvey Brough (born 24 October 1957) is an English tenor, instrumentalist, composer, producer and arranger. Starting at the age of six as a chorister at Coventry Cathedral, and achieving greatest prominence as founder, leader, musical director and producer of Harvey and the Wallbangers, he has worked in a wide range of musical genres including classical, early music, pop and soul, jazz, folk and world music. Early life Born in Coventry, Brough's musical education began at the age of six when he became a chorister at Coventry Cathedral. By the age of thirteen, he was a featured soloist on recordings including music by Bach and Britten. At the age of 17, he studied oboe at the Royal Academy of Music, taught by Evelyn, Lady Barbirolli. When he was seventeen, his elder brother Lester, then a medical student at Clare College, Cambridge, was killed in a motorcycle accident at the age of nineteen. This formative influence later became the inspiration for his composition Requiem in Blue. In 1978, Brough himself went to Clare College to study music as an undergraduate, where he was taught by the composer John Rutter. Whilst there, he founded, directed and sang in his own consort, the Cambridge University Consort of Voices, whose members included Mark Padmore, Charles Daniels, Gerald Finley and Christopher Purves. He also worked closely with Rutter's own ensemble, the Cambridge Singers. Harvey and the Wallbangers Whilst at Cambridge, Brough also formed his own band, Harvey and the Wallbangers. As well as Brough himself, the band's members included Christopher Purves, Jeremy Taylor, Jonny Griffiths, Neil McArthur (who performed under the name Reg Prescott), Richard Allen and Andrew Huggett. Each band member but Huggett, the drummer, contributed vocally to the music as well as playing a variety of instruments. The Wallbangers’ music drew on a variety of musical genres, including doo-wop, blues rock and vocal harmony. As well as performing, Brough acted as musical director and producer for the band. Harvey and the Wallbangers’ first performance was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1981; they subsequently performed in a number of venues before becoming a full-time enterprise in 1983. Between then and 1987, they performed new stage shows regularly and in a variety of venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, Sadler's Wells Theatre, The Forum, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and the Tempodrom in Berlin, and made many television appearances. The band also performed at the Royal