John Philip Sousa for Monty Python's Flying Circus), "The Thunderer" and "The Washington Post". Sousa began his career playing violin and studying music theory and composition under John Esputa and George Felix Benkert. His father enlisted him in the United States Marine Band as an apprentice in 1868. After departing the band in 1875, Sousa learned to conduct. From 1880 until his death, he focused exclusively on conducting and the writing of music. He eventually rejoined the Marine Band and served there for 12 years as director. On leaving the Marine Band, Sousa organized his own band. Sousa aided in the development of
Brian Bloodaxe (The "Liberty Bell March" by John Philip Sousa, better known to most as the "Flying Circus" theme tune), and colourful graphics. The game polarised critics on different platforms - it impressed many, scoring 86% in CRASH, 3 "hits" out of 3 in Your Spectrum, and 8/10 in Sinclair User, but Zzap!64 were unimpressed by the Commodore 64 conversion which they felt had not been altered sufficiently from the original version to take advantage of the machine's technical abilities. It was awarded an 18% overall rating and described as "very disappointing". Brian Bloodaxe Brian Bloodaxe is a British platform game written