Bio: Although many reference sources inexplicably give Barry Gray's year of birth as 1925, he was in fact born John Livesey Eccles in Blackburn on 18 July 1908. His father John Haworth Eccles was a stationery traveller by profession, but both parents were said to be musically talented, and John Junior went to study at the Royal Manchester College of Music and at Blackburn Cathedral, learning composition from Matyas Seiber
Barry Gray would have been no older than 75 in Thunderbirds 60th Anniversary Double Bill - Trapped in the Sky / Terror in New York City as 'Original Music Composer'.
