- He was playing at a jazz festival when he met Stephane Grappelli, another French jazz great who had co-founded a group called the Hot Club of France with guitar legend Django Reinhardt. Grappelli invited the 20-year-old Lockwood to join him on a European tour, launching an international career in which he gave around 4,500 concerts and released more than 35 records.
- His father was a music teacher, and his older brother Francis was a jazz pianist. When he was 17, Lockwood joined a popular French prog-rock band called Magma.
- He was a violinist and composer who crossed musical genres, from jazz-rock to classical; he experimented with the electric violin. He wrote two operas, violin and piano concertos, and music for films and cartoons.
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