John Alldis, who conducted the choir on Pink Floyd’s “Atom Heart Mother” (1970), died Monday. He was 81.
Alldis was the man who stepped in for composer Ron Geesin, when he nearly came to blows with a horn player while recording “Atom Heart Mother.” (Hear Geesin’s account of the incident.)
Alldis’s work with Floyd was a tiny sliver of his long career, which began with The John Alldis Choir in 1962.
