In 1976, Rogers entered the
Royal College of Music,
London, later becoming an associate (ARCM) and winning their guitar prize in 1980. Upon leaving he joined
Ballet Rambert's Mercury Ensemble as their guitarist. During this period he composed several ballet scores, including
Entre Dos Aguas and
Fabrications for
London Contemporary Dance Theatre. He also made his first commercial hit, joining the South American
folk music group
Incantation who enjoyed some UK and international chart success in the early 1980s, their best known single being "Cacharpaya". In 1985, Rogers left both Rambert and Incantation and joined the post-punk group
the Fall, initially as temporary bassist replacing
Stephen Hanley. After Hanley's return from paternity leave, Rogers joined the Fall on guitar and keyboards for the album ''
This Nation's Saving Grace and co-writing several songs on the follow-up Bend Sinister. He produced their top 20 album The Frenz Experiment'' (1988) before parting company with the group. During this period, he also produced two albums for
Bauhaus singer
Peter Murphy. He began to compose for television whilst at Rambert and his credits include TV dramas such as
The Old Men at the Zoo (1982),
Much Ado About Nothing (1983) and
The Rainbow (1988) as well as two American TV movies,
Daddy (1987) and
The Preppie Murder (1989) for
ABC. In the 1990s, Rogers continued to work in music production, beginning a long association with
the Lightning Seeds, for whom he co-produced the albums
Sense,
Jollification,
Dizzy Heights and
Tilt as well as the football anthem "
Three Lions". He also returned to The Fall to produce the majority of
The Infotainment Scan. Throughout the '90s he was also involved with underground dance music, remixing under the names RAMP and Slacker. Slacker signed to XL in '97 and had two hits, "Scared" and "Your Face" during their time on the label. There were also several successful releases on
Boy George's More Protein label, including
Generations of Love and
Everything Starts with an E. He has also developed solo projects such as
Leuroj and
T-Era for the Skint/Loaded labels, and
Steiger for
John Digweed’s
Bedrock Records label. In 2003, he returned to television music, scoring
40 (starring
Eddie Izzard and
Kerry Fox) for
Channel 4. Work on other productions followed swiftly after the first broadcast of the series including ITV's
Rebus, starring
Ken Stott, various episodes of BBC's
Dalziel and Pascoe and Jon Howe's film
Streets which was selected for the Venice Film Festival of 2004. Other credits include scores for
South Africa, Murder Most Foul, ''Ochberg's Orphans
and Dancing with the Devil in the City of God
, directed by Oscar-winning documentary maker Jon Blair and the title music for Hustle'' (Kudos/Spooks Ltd for
BBC One), which was nominated for the Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
Emmy Award in 2007. Rogers was also part of Musicotopia who have provided music for three series of Animal Planet's
River Monsters, BBC
Natural World documentaries and
The First World War from Above for BBC One in 2010. In 2012, he scored the 4th season of CBBC drama
Young Dracula. He also composed the music for
The Dumping Ground since its second season. He was BAFTA nominated in the Music Factual category in 2024 for "A Time To Die" an ITV documentary dealing with assisted dying. ==See also==