Walter Samuel Abridged analytical notes on the film music of Klaus Harmony. Hamburg, 1997

Dub Down Dirty, 1974 During the recording of the 1974 instrumental album Brown On Brown, a period referred to by Godfrey Gilliam as Klaus Harmony’s ‘lost fortnight’, the composer became friendly with James Last and Brian Eno, often exhibiting uncharacteristically decadent behaviour. Famously, and perhaps apocryphally, the trio was escorted from a grand Viennese hotel after painting every alternate key of the Bösendorfer grand piano in their suite with red nail polish. It was also at this time that Klaus was introduced to British actor and singer, Dennis Waterman, who was considering the composer as producer for his next album. The two became close and during a recording session, following a few drinks, the actor began to speak of the ‘darkness within’, a theme with which Klaus identified closely. It was this which inspired the soulful, quasi-Baroque Dub Down Dirty, the melody of which is thought to have been suggested by Waterman who was also a blossoming composer in his own right.