6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
‘Everything about Allee Willis was over the top': NI graphic designer illustrates pop-up book as homage to LA composer who wrote Friends theme
The name Allee Willis is probably not known to many people on this side of the Atlantic, but for movie fans, she composed some of cinema's most iconic soundtracks — including Beverly Hills Cop and The Color Purple. The late songwriter is also known for transforming a Los Angeles Art Deco residence into a 1950s kitsch paradise which is honoured in a new pop-up book illustrated by a Co Down graphic designer.
Neal McCullough, from Bangor, who established his graphic design business Hand Drawn Creative in 2009, was approached by one of Allee's friends, Hillary Carlip to illustrate the book, Willis Wonderland — The Legendary Home of Atomic Kitsch after Allee passed away in 2019 at the age of 72.
