At the age of nineteen he became a musician in the Royal Air Force and in 1944 joined the Buddy Featherstonhaugh Sextet.
[1] His biggest successes in composition were for the BBC series' Friends and Neighbours (1954) and The Pursuers (1961) for which he wrote the themes.
[1] He scored several films for Harry Alan Towers, such as Sandy the Seal (1965), Our Man in Marrakesh (1966), Five Golden Dragons (1967) and The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967).
His other film scores include The Pleasure Girls (1965), Island of Terror (1966), Deadlier than the Male (1967) and Night of the Big Heat (1967).
[3] Lockyer had taken part in the first UK selection process to find Britain's debut Eurovision entry in 1957.