http://www.xrefer.com/entry/238133 Biographical and works information from Oxford Dictionary of Music with related composer links by xrefer. http://www.musicweb.uk.net/coates/ Photographs and links to essays and lists of orchestral works and songs and ballads from Musicweb UK. http://www.times1190.freeserve.co.uk/eric.htm Short celebratory biography written in sections. Shows his humanity and his musical ability, including his abandoning playing the viola for full-time composition. http://web02.hnh.com/composer/btm.asp?fullname=Coates,%20Eric Biography showing his evolution into a light music and patriotic composer with recommended Naxos discography. http://www.musicweb.uk.net/garlands/coates2.htm Philip Scowcroft, author of British Light Music Composers, reflects on the man and his compositions. Written familiarly and with respect and admiration. http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/6695.html Find a Grave photograph of the marker for him, his wife Phyllis, and their son Austin with link to other notables in the Golders Green Crematorium, London, England.