- Died in Londons Kings College Hospital of throat cancer.
- In his early years he developed an interest in dance and from here gathered an interest in music.
- One of the highlights of Lockyer's career was arranging and conducting the Bing Crosby album Holiday in Europe (1961), described as "one of the all-time Crosby classics" by the jazz critic Will Friedwald in his liner notes to the CD Bing Crosby: Legends of the 20th Century, which includes seven tracks from the album.
- He was a British film composer and conductor.
- Lockyer had taken part in the first UK selection process to find Britain's debut Eurovision entry in 1957. Lockyer had taken part in the first UK selection process to find Britain's debut Eurovision entry in 1957.
- His film scores include The Pleasure Girls (1965), Island of Terror (1966), Night of the Big Heat (1967), The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) and Sandy the Seal (1969).
- Lockyer was the musical director for the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest staged at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Unusually however, as noted in John Kennedy O'Connor's The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, he did not conduct the home entry for the UK (it was conducted by David Mackay instead).
- He also composed the music for the 1965 film Dr. Who and the Daleks, some arrangements from that film have since been released on a CD called The Eccentric Dr. Who.
- Malcolm Lockyer made his debut on the international Eurovision stage in 1972. That year's Eurovision Song Contest was accompanied by the BBC Radio Orchestra. Lockyer, being its chief conductor, was commissioned by the BBC to be the musical director of the contest, staged in the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. He did not conduct any entry, though, not even the UK attempt 'Beg steal or borrow', for which the arranger of the performing group New Seekers, David Mackay, took over the baton. All orchestrations heard in the contest's introduction film and the end of the transmission, however, were penned and conducted by Lockyer himself.
- Lockyer collaborated on several studio recordings, conducting, amongst many others, the LP 'The World of Matt Monro' in 1970.
- Lockyer conducted frequently throughout the 1960s. Among the many orchestras he led were those for: the BBC Radio Home Service's radio musical version of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1962), and the films Our Man in Marrakesh (1966) and Deadlier than the Male (1967) among others.
- Shortly before his death in 1976, he conducted The Million Airs Orchestra in 26 Glenn Miller tribute concert.
- From the early 1960s, he was conductor of the BBC Revue Orchestra and subsequently the principal conductor of the new BBC Radio Orchestra and the BBC Big Band when both ensembles were formed in 1967.
- At the age of nineteen he became a musician in the Royal Air Force and in 1944 joined the Buddy Featherstonhaugh Sextet.
- His biggest successes in composition were for the BBC series' Friends and Neighbours (1954) and The Pursuers (1961) for which he wrote the themes.
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