Born Alan Tudor Blaikley in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, Blaikley was educated at University College School (UCS), 展开

Blaikley had long been interested in analytical psychology and, at the instigation of his analyst, mentor and friend, Dr William Kraemer, he trained as a psychotherapist at … 展开

Blaikley's partner from 1978 to 2015 was the translator David Charles Harris (1954–2015), with whom he entered into a civil partnership in 2007.
Blaikley died on 4 July 2022, aged 82. 展开

International hits in the 1960s and 1970s
In the 1960s and 1970s, in collaboration with Ken Howard, Blaikley composed the music and words for many international top 10 hits, … 展开

Blaikley worked on a memoir, Have I the Right? – Memories, Reflections, Notes, and maintained his collaboration with Howard, with whom he was co-director of an active publishing … 展开

• List of Old Gowers 展开

• Website about Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, including a biography and audio and video of some of their hits
• Life before Death – 1978 album of sonnets and other poems performed by R. D. Laing to an original musical score composed by Alan … 展开