Peter Best is an Australian composer who has created or contributed to many film scores. His career started in 1967. In 1969, the founders of Producers Authors Composers and Talent (now PACT Centre for Emerging Artists) attended a

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Architecture Revue, with sets by Geoffrey Atherden and Grahame Bond, and invited Bond, Atherden, Peter Weir, and Best a chance to do a show at the National Art School. Sir Robert Helpmann saw the show and took it to the Adelaide Festival, and soon afterwards Weir and Bond were commissioned to write a Christmas special TV show for ABC Television, called ''Man on a Green Bike''. He has worked on such films as '' The Adventures of Barry McKenzie'' (1972), '' Barry McKenzie Holds His Own'' (1974), '' End Play'' (1976), '' The Picture Show Man'' (1977), ''

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'' (1982), '' Goodbye Paradise'' (1983), '' Bliss'' (1985), '' Crocodile Dundee'' (1986), '' Crocodile Dundee II'' (1988), '' Muriel's Wedding'' (1994), '' Doing Time for Patsy Cline'' (1997) and ''

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'' (2000). Many of his scores have been released on compact disc, including '' Crocodile Dundee'' on Varèse Sarabande, and ''

'' on

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. He was also responsible for the theme music for the Life. Be in it, Care For Kids (International Year of the Child 1979), Slip Slop Slap (Cancer Council Victoria), and Rosella (Only the Best to You).1970's Rosella TV Ad via YouTube
Retrieved 13 September 2016.

Awards

ARIA Music Awards

The

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is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of

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. They commenced in 1987. ! , - ,

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, ''"Crocodile" Dundee'' , Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album , , ARIA Award previous winners. , -

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*1977 – ''The Picture Show Man'' *1985 – '' Rebel: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' with Ray Cook, Chris Neal, Billy Byers, Bruce Rowland *1995 – ''Dad and Dave: On Our Selection'' *1997 – '' Doing Time for Patsy Cline''

References

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* * APRA Award winners Australian film score composers Male film score composers Living people 1943 births 20th-century composers 20th-century Australian male musicians 20th-century Australian musicians {{composer-stub