I'm genuinely quite sad about Ben Daglish dying, he wrote the soundtrack of my youth in a lot of ways, along with Martin Galway, Rob Hubbard, Tim Follin, Dave Whittaker et al
I know you're supposed to be a Spectrum fan if you're a Brit but I always preferred the C64 as its sound hardware was so much stronger, and the miracles these guys could work with the SID chip blew me away then, and still blow me away now.
I'd often load a game I didn't even want to play, just to listen to the loader music, and then the title/game music.
Ben seemed to be a genuinely nice guy as well.
The Last Ninja remains one of the finest game soundtracks ever created. I actually didn't care much for the game itself, I played it for the music.