Fred was the first full-time computer game musician in the world, that we know of. Certainly the first in Europe.
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​There are two Fred Gray medleys in the concert, but all of them stem from one previous remix: "Mission Fred", by Manganoid featuring Johan Andersson on guitar. The original contained four tracks: Mission AD, Nodes of Yesod, Mutants and Shadowfire. Shadowfire was separated out and became a separate track for Gari Biasillo, but Chris Abbott took on the challenge of the rest of the track. Fred was very specific about Mission Fred being something he wanted to hear orchestrated.

Why did you start making music for the C64, and how did it come about?
Tim Best - where are you now? It was all his fault lol 
Tim was a friend of mine who was given the job of recruitment officer at Imagine Software. I had previously asked him to assess some VIC20 games I had written (he had his own little software business planned but as fate would have it, he was offered the recruitment job at imagine - as a result we both moved on to better things lol) 

Anyway, Tim told me he was really impressed with the way I had used sound on the VIC20 and offered me the post as in-house composer at Imagine - a one man music department lol - was that a shock! In the beginning I put some pretty awful tunes to some pretty awful games lol. I think the real innovation was the way we all worked together to convert the games for the different machines and processors. I made some great friends there - Hi to you all! The directors at Imagine were kewl too... so generous... they would take all the staff out to eat and sip cocktails at glitzy night clubs lol... those were the days :O) 

By the time Imagine went bust, I had enough contacts in the business to make a go on my own, working freelance... and so on and so on.

From interview at remix.com by Neil Carr