creating the score for the adaption of Robert Westall's The Machine Gunners by Tom Kelly and Ken Reay. This was followed in 1999 with further collaboration with Tom Kelly on Tom and Catherine, the life story of the romantic writer Catherine Cookson and her husband Tom. Their next work was Dan Dare The Musical in 2003, with Miles writing the score for Cuddy's Miles by Arthur McKenzie and David Whitaker, which was about the Jarrow Marches with the character Cuddy being Miles grandfather Cuthbert. In 2016, Miles and Kelly collaborated on Dolly Mixtures, a musical based on the story of eight women who set-up a variety act when one of their husbands was diagnosed with cancer – later going on to raise £100,000 in the 1970s and 1980s. Personal life and death Miles died after a short illness on 5 December 2021 at the age of 72 and was survived by his wife of nearly 50 years, Eileen, two children and two grandchildren. His son, John Miles Jr., is also a musician and played with groups such as Milk Inc., Sylver, the Urge and Fixate. Alan Parsons wrote of Miles: Carl Huybrechts, one of the joint creators of Night of the Proms said: Discography See also List of 1970s one-hit wonders in the United States List of artists under the Decca Records label List of performers on Top of the Pops Orange Records References External links john-miles.net—Unofficial website 1949 births 2021 deaths English male singer-songwriters Decca Records artists EMI Records artists English male guitarists 20th-century English male singers 20th-century English singers English rock guitarists English rock keyboardists English songwriters Harvest Records artists London Records artists Arista Records artists People from Jarrow Musicians from Tyne and Wear Musicians from County Durham English rock singers