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Barry Leitch Interview: The Music Behind Lotus, Top Gear and Beyond

Barry Leitch portrait with Top Gear and Lotus II racing scenes in a red, yellow and black Retro Replay interview collage

Sometimes a game stays with you as a tune. The television is gone, the controller has changed, and you can barely remember the last race you won. Then a few notes bring the whole afternoon back. For players who grew up with Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 or Top Gear, Barry Leitch is part of that memory. His music gave small cars and distant horizons a sense of occasion. You could be having… Read more

The Complete History of Top Gear: Split-Screen Rivalries and the Soundtrack That Stayed

Top Gear history collage with SNES and Nintendo 64 racing scenes, Barry Leitch and Ritchie Brannan.

The worst sound in Top Gear was not a crash. A crash could be recovered from. The real disaster was watching your car slow down while the other half of the screen kept moving. You had squeezed one more lap out of the fuel tank, missed the pit lane, and handed your friend a story they were going to tell for the rest of the afternoon. The music, rather unfairly, still sounded… Read more