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Frank Esler-Smith
(5 June 1948 in
London
, England
[1]
? 1 March 1991
[2]
in
Melbourne
, Australia)
[3]
was an English arranger and keyboard player for Doug Parkinson's Southern Star from 1978 to 1980 before joining the
soft rock
band
Air Supply
in their 1980s heyday.
[4]
[5]
Initially, his pursuits lay elsewhere, as he attended
Melbourne University
to study architecture. However, his early passion had been
classical music
, and he would later gain extensive experience as an
orchestral conductor
in settings as variegated as
musical theatre
and
rock
recordings. He first met principal Air Supply members
Russell Hitchcock
and
Graham Russell
while he was working with the orchestra in a production of
Jesus Christ Superstar
that included Hitchcock and Russell as cast members. He collaborated with many other musicians and songwriters throughout his career.
[3]
He died of pneumonia in 1991, at the age of 42. According to the website rememberme.org, Esler-Smith also had
AIDS
.
[6]
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