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A few months after his 18th birthday Douggie became a professional musician in Britain's emerging rock and roll scene and by the age of 23 was bass player/musical director to Dusty Springfield touring the world with her for seven years. He was also musical director for John Rowles and in 1971 he married and came to live in Melbourne where he started to write arrangements for E.M.I. Records.

In 1973 he joined The Image Music Group as A & R manager producing many successful records. During 1974 in collaboration with Peter Martin he wrote the string arrangement for Linda George's "Mamas Little Girl" which won the Top Arrangement for 1974/75.

In 1977 after leaving Image Music (which by then had become Fable Music) Douggie went on to produce, direct and arrange for clients in many fields from jingles, records, concerts to radio and television productions. 1978 saw him working as music coordinator on tv shows such as The Don Lane, Paul Hogan, Bert Newton and Ernie Sigley Shows and many of the GTV9 specials.

During 1988 Douggie arranged and produced music for ABC TV's "Sugar and Spice" which was nominated for a music award in 1988/89 followed by "Pugwall" in 1989 and "Pugwall Summer" in 1990.

Throughout his long career Douggie has been involved in every facet of the music industry as musician, arranger, record producer, music coordinator, music publisher in both England and Australia and music continues to influence and fulfill his life.