Douglas was an avid Beatles lover, but listened to all sorts of music. One of his close friends was Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd, and Douglas once appeared playing the guitar on one of their shows (see the Trivia section for details). He owned somewhere in the vicinity of 40 guitars and also created music on his beloved Mac computers. Some of the music in the game Starship Titanic is by his hand.

One of his favorite songs is called "Rockstar", written by his friend Margo Buchanan, her husband Paul "Wix" Wickens and Miles Waters. He made a video for the song, starring his daughter Polly miming to it. Here's what he said about the video:

"In November Apple brought together a bunch of people under its AppleMaster program and taught us to use their new digital video editing stuff – the new iMac DV with Firewire ports and bundled iMovie software. (It’s a very simple-to-use program that works like a cut and paste word processor for digital video at broadcast quality. It’s pretty amazing stuff.)

We each had to make our own video as part of the class. I made a kind of rock video, based on a song by my friend Margo Buchanan. Margo is a singer and songwriter who mostly works as a session singer but has one of the most amazing voices I know. She wrote it along with Miles Waters and her husband Wix. Wix is a very old friend of mine who had the same piano teacher as me at school, but it worked rather better for him than for me, and he was for years Paul McCartney’s keyboard player. He also did the music for Starship Titanic. The guitarist on the track is the great Robbie McIntosh. Buy his acoustic album!

The little girl in the video is my daughter, Polly, who's five. She's 'playing' a guitar of mine, a left-handed Steinberger (though she's right-handed), which has a tiny body but full-size strings and fretboard. I filmed it partly at our house in Santa Barbara, partly at Santa Barbara zoo, and the little insert with John Cleese I did in the lobby of the Apple building where we were editing.

Getting the actual shots was a very rough and ready process – it was just a question of filming whatever I could at the moments she felt like being co-operative! There was no chance of redoing anything to fix the lighting. I just got what I got and then had to do a ton of editing. Having seen it fifty times I now want to edit it further. Maybe I will sometime over the holidays"

Margo Buchanan is an extremely talented, beautiful and nice woman, she recorded and performed with many artists including Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton, Billy Idol, Mark Knopfler, Pink Floyd, Seal, Tina Turner, Daryl Hall, Mink Deville, Phil Collins etc. She even, on one memorable occasion sang with Spinal Tap! More recent artists that she has supported are Joe Walsh, Paul Rodgers, Jo Cocker, Van Morrison, Robert Plant, Corrine Bailey Rae, James Blunt and KT Tunstall. Her debut solo album, entitled "I should've done this years ago" and which will also include "Rockstar", is released on May 15, 2006 and you can buy it from her official website; http://www.margobuchanan.com. There are mp3 snips of some of the songs from the album to be listened to on her site. It's superb stuff!

Watch the video here in Quicktime format. Click on the picture to play.

Download the mp3 version of the song. Click the pic.