Throughout his career he worked with artists including Ringo Starr, Ginger Baker, Billy Bragg, Gerry Rafferty and Alan White.
He collaborated with Alan Hull and Lindisfarne, joining the band in 1973 and remaining with them until their temporary split in 1975, and acted as musical director for Van Morrison and Mary Black.
Craddock, though, had written a song based upon a W. B. Yeats poem called "Before the World", which Morrison said he would like to record.
Craddock himself performed the show's theme song, a cover version of Chris Rea's "Fool (If You Think It's Over)".
[1] Craddock moved to Portugal in 2001, where he died in a car crash after completing his first solo album, Mad as the Mist and Snow.