Another face in British comedy has died recently. Last week, Angela Morley, leading light musician, composer, arranger and conductor died. Morley however, will best be known in British comedy as Mr. Wally Stott, the music producer for The Goon Show and Hancock's Half Hour.
In 1972, Stott underwent a sex change operation, or a sex-rectifying operation as it was known at the time. When the BBC ordered The Last Goon Show of All, Morley decided not to appear on it because she had not gone public about her operation. Other than the Goons and Hancock, Morley wrote scores for Dallas, Dynasty and Watership Down. She also got two Oscar nominations, for her work on the films The Little Prince (1974) and The Slipper and the Rose (1976).
So, RIP Wally/Angela - or not dead, just deaded.
