Q: Tell us about your collaboration with composer Jonathan Elias, which lead to writing the iconic MTV «Man On The Moon» theme and the work with John Barry on Murder by Phone in the early 80s. Having grown up in the 60’s and 70’s during an unprecedented explosion of music and culture, I consider myself fortunate to have grown up at an incredibly prolific and transformative time in our history. Once I heard The Beatles and Bob Dylan, that was it for me, I knew what I wanted to do. I starting playing guitar and writing songs at the age of 8. Although my mother was born of Sicilian immigrants, my father’s grandparents were of Danish descent-ergo, the ‘ E’ in Peters En. I grew up in a suburb just 20 miles from New York City. Tell us about your youth and musical development. That’s a quite common name in Norway, Denmark and Germany. I wondered if you have a link to Scandinavia or Germany because of the E in PetersEn. Q: Tell us about your youth, where you grew up and how you got into music. For more than three decades, fans of the TV show have wondered who Petersen is, how he got the gig and how the two composers worked together.įor the first time, John Petersen talks about his time on Miami Vice and other musical adventures in the film and TV business. In 1987, his name suddenly appeared alongside Jan Hammer in the music credits of the fourth season of Miami Vice. New York-based musician and composer John Petersen has worked on and off in film and TV for 40 years.
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