Joseph Koo MBE, GBS (25 February 1932 - 3 January 2023) was a Hong Kong composer. Koo joined TVB as their director of music in 1973, where from the late 1970s until immigrating to Canada in the 1990s, he collaborated with the lyricist [a=James Wong] on many memorable TV theme songs. Koo composed over 1,200 songs in his career, many of his songs are now considered as classic Cantopop. Koo received Member of Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1982. In 1998, he received the Bronze Bauhinia Star from the Hong K…