
Marcus Blunt was born in Birmingham in 1947. Although around the age of 9 he had piano lessons from his father for a year or more, and made his first attempts at composition, his interest in music did not really take off until he was 14. He went on to study composition at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, graduating in 1970. After a remarkably wide variety of abodes in rural Warwickshire, Manchester, York, and London and occupations ranging from warehouse packer and photographic processor to department manager at a music publishers [read more...]