Also that year he co-wrote "The Girls Back Home", which was released as a single from the Rock Dreams album by the Brian Bennett Band.

This initial success, especially in television, led to him becoming not only an accomplished musician, writer and producer (with more than 70 albums) but also as an established composer for feature films.

In 2004, Bennett arranged and produced the first new Shadows recording for 14 years; the Jerry Lordan penned Life Story which reached number 7 in the UK Albums Chart.

Bennett's own label, Waffles Music, has released three albums by his band The Vibratos (The Ghost Of Old Compton Street, Tornado Alley and The Cappuccino Kid),[5] who performed at the Pipeline Instrumental Rock Convention in London in 2003,[6] collaborations with Mark Griffiths (Close To The Hedge) and Ben Marvin (Zookeeper) and a solo album titled Left To My Own Devices.

His television soundtrack credits include New Tricks, The Ambassador, Wuthering Heights, Can't Buy Me Love, London's Burning, The Knock, Staying Alive, Dirty Work, Holby City, Birds of a Feather and Close to Home.