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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''Only Fools and Horses'' has separate theme songs for the opening and closing credits, "Only Fools and Horses" and "Hooky Street", respectively.<ref>{{cite book | author=Clark | year=1998 | title=Only Fools and Horses Story | page=2}}</ref> The original theme tune was produced by [[Ronnie Hazlehurst]] and recorded on 6 August 1981 at [[Lime Grove Studios]]. [[Alf Bigden]], [[Paul Westwood]], Don Hunt, John Dean, Judd Proctor, [[Eddie Mordue]], and Rex Morris were hired to play the music. The tune was changed after the first series, and the new one was written by John Sullivan (he disliked the tune for the first series, and his new one explained the show's title<ref name=BBCPR02>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/09_september/03/onlyfools_firstepisode.shtml|title=BBC ONE celebrates 21st birthday of Only Fools and Horses|publisher=BBC|date=3 September 2002|access-date=17 January 2007}}</ref>), and Hazlehurst conducted it. It was recorded at Lime Grove on 11 May 1982, with musicians [[John Horler]], [[Dave Richmond]], Bigden, and Proctor. Sullivan had intended [[Chas & Dave]] to sing it because they had enjoyed success with the "Rockney" style, a mixture of rock n' roll and traditional Cockney music.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/rockney-geezers-a-kneesup-with-chas--dave-765966.html | title = Rockney geezers: A knees-up with Chas & Dave | date = 19 December 2007 | access-date = 15 March 2013 | work=The Independent |location=London}}</ref> Sullivan was persuaded to do it himself by Ray Butt.<ref name=Theme>{{cite book | author=Webber | year=2003 | title=A-Z of Only Fools and Horses | pages=193, 194}}</ref> Despite the creation of a new theme tune, the original one remained in occasional use.<ref name=BBCPR02 /> Chas & Dave did later contribute to the show, performing the closing credits song for the 1989 episode "[[The Jolly Boys' Outing]]".<ref>{{cite book | author=Webber | year=2003 | title=A-Z of Only Fools and Horses | page=112}}</ref> Both songs are performed by Sullivan himself, and not – as is sometimes thought – by Nicholas Lyndhurst.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uktv.co.uk/gold/stepbystep/aid/592200/pageNo/4 |title=Trotter Trivia |work=UKTV Gold |access-date=5 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127090708/http://uktv.co.uk/gold/stepbystep/aid/592200/pageNo/4 |archive-date=27 November 2007 }}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''Only Fools and Horses'' has separate theme songs for the opening and closing credits, "Only Fools and Horses" and "Hooky Street", respectively.<ref>{{cite book | author=Clark | year=1998 | title=Only Fools and Horses Story | page=2}}</ref> The original theme tune was produced by [[Ronnie Hazlehurst]] and recorded on 6 August 1981 at [[Lime Grove Studios]]. [[Alf Bigden]], [[Paul Westwood]], Don Hunt, John Dean, Judd Proctor, [[Eddie Mordue]], and Rex Morris were hired to play the music. The tune was changed after the first series, and the new one was written by John Sullivan (he disliked the tune for the first series, and his new one explained the show's title<ref name=BBCPR02>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/09_september/03/onlyfools_firstepisode.shtml|title=BBC ONE celebrates 21st birthday of Only Fools and Horses|publisher=BBC|date=3 September 2002|access-date=17 January 2007}}</ref>), and Hazlehurst conducted it. It was recorded at Lime Grove on 11 May 1982, with musicians [[John Horler]], [[Dave Richmond]], Bigden, and Proctor. Sullivan had intended [[Chas & Dave]] to sing it because they had enjoyed success with the "Rockney" style, a mixture of rock n' roll and traditional Cockney music.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/rockney-geezers-a-kneesup-with-chas--dave-765966.html | title = Rockney geezers: A knees-up with Chas & Dave | date = 19 December 2007 | access-date = 15 March 2013 | work=The Independent |location=London}}</ref> Sullivan was persuaded to do it himself by Ray Butt.<ref name=Theme>{{cite book | author=Webber | year=2003 | title=A-Z of Only Fools and Horses | pages=193, 194}}</ref> Despite the creation of a new theme tune, the original one remained in occasional use.<ref name=BBCPR02 /> Chas & Dave did later contribute to the show, performing the closing credits song for the 1989 episode "[[The Jolly Boys' Outing]]".<ref>{{cite book | author=Webber | year=2003 | title=A-Z of Only Fools and Horses | page=112}}</ref> Both songs are performed by Sullivan himself, and not – as is sometimes thought – by Nicholas Lyndhurst.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uktv.co.uk/gold/stepbystep/aid/592200/pageNo/4 |title=Trotter Trivia |work=UKTV Gold |access-date=5 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127090708/http://uktv.co.uk/gold/stepbystep/aid/592200/pageNo/4 |archive-date=27 November 2007 }}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1980, [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]], a scriptwriter under contract at the BBC, was already well known as the writer of the sitcom ''[[Citizen Smith]]''. It came to an end that year and Sullivan was searching for a new project. An initial idea for a comedy set in the world of football was rejected by the BBC, as was his alternative idea, a sitcom centring on a cockney market trader in working class, modern-day London. The latter idea persisted.<ref>{{cite book| last = Clark| first = Steve| title = The Only Fools and Horses Story| year = 1998| pages = 10–11 }}</ref> Through Ray Butt, a BBC producer and director whom Sullivan had met and become friends with when they were working on ''Citizen Smith'', a draft script was shown to the BBC's Head of Comedy, [[John Howard Davies]]. Davies commissioned Sullivan to write a full series. Sullivan believed the key factor in its being accepted was the success of ITV's new drama, ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'', a series with a similar premise and also set in modern-day London.<ref name="Clark15">{{cite book | author=Clark | year=1998 | title=Only Fools and Horses Story | page=15}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1980, [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]], a scriptwriter under contract at the BBC, was already well known as the writer of the sitcom ''[[Citizen Smith]]''. It came to an end that year and Sullivan was searching for a new project. An initial idea for a comedy set in the world of football was rejected by the BBC, as was his alternative idea, a sitcom centring on a cockney market trader in working class, modern-day London. The latter idea persisted.<ref>{{cite book| last = Clark| first = Steve| title = The Only Fools and Horses Story| year = 1998| pages = 10–11 }}</ref> Through Ray Butt, a BBC producer and director whom Sullivan had met and become friends with when they were working on ''Citizen Smith'', a draft script was shown to the BBC's Head of Comedy, [[John Howard Davies]]. Davies commissioned Sullivan to write a full series. Sullivan believed the key factor in its being accepted was the success of ITV's new drama, ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'', a series with a similar premise and also set in modern-day London.<ref name="Clark15">{{cite book | author=Clark | year=1998 | title=Only Fools and Horses Story | page=15}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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