Press Release from Dragon's Domain:
Dragon’s Domain Records presents I DESIRE featuring music composed by Don Peake (THE HILLS HAVE EYES, THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS) for the 1982 television film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey, written by Robert Foster, starring David Naughton (AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON), Dorian Harewood, Marilyn Jones, Barbara Stock, Arthur Rosenberg, James Victor, Anne Bloom and Brad Dourif.
Airing on ABC Television in 1982, I, DESIRE tells the story of David Balsinger (Naughton) a law student who moonlights as a coroner’s assistant at the county coroner’s office in Los Angeles. After just moving into town with his girlfriend, Cheryl (Jones), he soon finds himself drawn into investigating a series of strange murders in which men are being drained of their blood. David meets Jerry Van Ness (Harewood), a detective who also happens to be a law student. During the course of his investigation, David meets Mona (Stock), a nurse from one of the local hospitals. Accepting an invitation from Mona to come back to her apartment, David intuits that Mona is a vampire and she’s responsible for the murders he’s been looking into. Mona, realizing that she has been discovered, tries to overcome David on her balcony but instead falls to her death...or has she?
Don Peake is a multi- talented musician who has worked as a guitarist, arranger, record producer, and film music composer. Starting his professional musical career as a guitarist in 1961, Peake's talent was recognized early when he toured as lead guitarist with the Everly Brothers at the age of 21, playing in the U.S. and Europe for two years. Peake returned to Los Angeles to establish himself as a recording musician, and played for many of the legendary performers under Phil Spector's production including The Righteous Brothers - "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," Ike and Tina Turner - "River Deep Mountain High," as well as recording with Mahalia Jackson, Billy Preston, Cannonball Adderly, Marvin Gaye, and Diana Ross.
Peake became the first white guitarist to play with the Ray Charles Orchestra, touring with Charles, and recording with him for ten years. During that time, Peake studied guitar with Barney Kessel, Howard Roberts, and Joe Pass, three legendary guitarists. Peake became one of the premiere session guitarists in Los Angeles, recording for Jan and Dean, The Mamas and the Papas, Sonny and Cher, The Beach Boys, and many others. Don was inducted into an elite group of musicians led by drummer Hal Blaine known as "The Wrecking Crew."
This amazing range of musical experience led Peake to composing music for film and commercials. He studied composition and orchestration extensively with Dr. Albert Harris, Academy Award winning composer Paul Glass, and conducting with Broadway's beloved Maestro Samuel Krachmalnick.
His film scores include Wes Craven's cult classic THE HILLS HAVE EYES, WALK PROUD, MOVING VIOLATION, MODERN LOVE, and BREAKIN’, which earned him a Platinum Album. Don spent three and a half years scoring the popular Universal Television series KNIGHT RIDER. He also scored the American Playhouse production of THE MEETING, a film about the meeting between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
The composer is very fond of his music for I, DESIRE. For the project, he was able to hire a large orchestra of fifty players and the scoring session was held at Universal Studios. The director of the film would go on to be a producer for KNIGHT RIDER and Peake would take over as the composer for the show.
Previously released on compact disc as a limited edition release by Hitchcock Records, Dragon’s Domain Records is excited to bring I, DESIRE back to the marketplace, with the music remastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland, sequenced into film order for the first time and including liner notes including the contributions of the composer and noted author Randall Larson.
