Eric Winstone

Eric Winstone was a British composer. Before his start in production music, he worked in Westminster as a clerk at the "Gas Light and Coke Company" while playing piano during his spare time. He would eventually quit his jobs in order to become a full time musician. In 1935, he would lead his first band inside the Spanish Club in Cavendish Square and would learn to play the accordion afterwards. He would form a few of his own swing bands in the early to mid 1940s and starting in 1947, he would compose library music for different labels. In 1957, he married Myrtle Winstone.