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Matthew Strachan: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Theme Composer Dead At 50

By Modupeoluwa Adekanye
23 September 2021   |   9:48 am
An award-winning composer who wrote the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? the theme tune has died 'suddenly' at home aged 50. Matthew Strachan wrote the theme tune for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? alongside father, Keith in 1998 and went on to win 12 awards for his music, including 10 for the show's…

Matthew Strachan: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Theme Composer Dead At 50

An award-winning composer who wrote the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? the theme tune has died ‘suddenly’ at home aged 50.

Matthew Strachan wrote the theme tune for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? alongside father, Keith in 1998 and went on to win 12 awards for his music, including 10 for the show’s soundtrack.

Strachan’s body was found by paramedics who were called to a residential address at Chudleigh Road, Twickenham, around 11:03 am.

His death comes less than a month after he was handed a 10-month suspended sentence for setting fire to his own home in a suspected suicide attempt in March last year.

The term, suspended for two years, included alcohol and mental health requirements.

A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: ‘We sent an ambulance crew, two medics in cars, and a hazardous area response team. Sadly, a person died at the scene.’

Scotland Yard said Strachan was declared dead at the scene and that the sudden passing was not being treated as suspicious.

The West London Coroner said they had opened an investigation into the composer’s death on September 8.

‘A post mortem has taken place and we are awaiting toxicology and histology results. Once we have the results the pathologist will be able to finalise their report and hopefully ascertain the cause of death,’ they said in a statement.

Strachan’s father Keith told the BBC his son was ‘loved by his family and he will be sadly missed. He was a warm, funny and talented human being’.

Tributes flooded in for the British composer most famous for Who Wants to be a Millionaire? but has also created music for other programmes including Question Time.

Strachan’s iconic theme also appeared in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle.

And it features in the current edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, which was relaunched with new host Jeremy Clarkson in 2018 and hit headlines last year when contestant Donald Fear, from Telford, won the coveted £1 million prize.

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