Richard Hartley (Born 28 July 1944) is an English composer, best known for his work on The Rocky Horror Show. He was born in 1944 and grew up in Holmfirth. 　　In the 1970s he began a long association with Richard O'Brien. Hartley was originally part of the four-piece band for the The Rocky Horror Show and went on to arrange the score for the London Stage and film adaptation (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as well as its follow-up Shock Treatment, and worked with O'Brien on another, as yet unproduced, sequel, Revenge of the Old Queen. His other 1970s film scores included The Romantic Englishwoman (1975), Aces High (1976), and the remake of The Lady Vanishes (1979).