On the Road With 'Dark Knight' Composer Hans Zimmer

The last time Hans Zimmer was a touring musician, it was around the time Margaret Thatcher took office. Having moved from Germany to England for school as a teenager, opting out of college and having no more formal music training than two weeks of childhood piano lessons, he was playing keyboards for Krakatoa, an ultimately unsigned hard rock band."And it was just these Working Men's Clubs with endless tables with people nursing their pint of beer which they'd been nursing all day," he says. "An