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-lsb- http://www.kennycraddock.com kennycraddock.com -rsb- 30 may 2002 near monchique , portugal wrekenton , gateshead , england kenny craddock 18 april 1950 non_vocal_instrumentalist kenny craddock
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kenny craddock

kenny craddock -lrb- 18 april 1950 - 30 may 2002 -rrb- was an instrumentalist , composer and producer .
throughout his career he worked with artists including ringo starr , ginger baker , billy bragg , gerry rafferty and alan white .
he collaborated with alan hull and lindisfarne , joining the band in 1973 and remaining with them until their temporary split in 1975 , and acted as musical director for van morrison and mary black .
craddock began touring with van morrison in the early 1980s , playing keyboards until around 1985 .
craddock , though , had a written a song based upon a w.b. yeats poem called `` before the world '' , which morrison said he would like to record .
`` before the world was made '' was adapted by morrison with music by craddock , and appeared on the 1993 album `` too long in exile '' .
in the nineties , he provided , with colin gibson , the incidental music to steven moffat 's sitcom `` joking apart '' .
craddock himself performed the show 's theme song , a cover version of chris rea 's `` fool -lrb- if you think it 's over -rrb- '' .
around this time , craddock toured with paul brady .
craddock moved to portugal in 2001 , where he died in a car crash after completing his first solo album , `` mad as the mist and snow '' .
