"Every time I played it, I got phone call after phone call. I thought I'd get howls of protest, but that wasn't the case. Listeners were actually moved by it": The story of William Orbit’s rework of Adagio for Strings and its chart-smashing trance remix

William Orbit.

Last week, news broke that British musician and producer William Orbit had died aged 69.

Orbit enjoyed a long, varied and successful career working with a broad array of top-tier pop acts – Madonna, Blur and All Saints, to name a few – perhaps most notably on Madonna’s Ray of Light, widely viewed as one of the best albums in her discography.