Look at the credits of films such as Alien, Chariots Of Fire, Yentl, Watership Down and Goldeneye and you will see the director’s name up in lights.

But you’re less likely to see the man who put all those films together, and as Terry Rawlings’s appearance at the monthly arts forum The Space demonstrated, that is a crying shame.

Terry was either sound or picture editor for all those films and countless more, in a career that stretched back through the UK film industry to 1954.

He made for a captivating, warm and entertaining speaker, full of anecdotes about working with Barbra Streisand, Ridley Scott, David Fincher and “arrogant son of a bitch” Jerry Goldsmith, as well as insights about working with “creative consultants” in the business end of Hollywood.

NME editor Conor McNicholas’s discussion with host Lisa Holloway felt more like a combination of a job interview and a sales conference, as the baby-faced 36-year-old talked in glowing terms about his previous career and discussed the page impressions and unit users on the NME website.

Anyone hoping for a quick tip on the latest music sensation would have been left disappointed as Conor admitted he spent most of his time in the office.