Michael Andrews is a Los Angeles musician and film score composer. He is best known for a cover version of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World", which he recorded with Gary Jules for the Donnie Darko soundtrack, and which became a number one single in the UK in Christmas 2003.

Michael Andrews (30 October 1928, Norwich, England - 19 July 1995) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under William Coldstream and briefly in Italy. From 1959, he taught at the Slade and Chelsea School of Art. In the 1960s he painted works showing parties; later, the "Lights" series presented views from the air. Andrews was much impressed by a visit to Ayers Rock in 1983, but the works he produced toward the end of his life are of scenes from Scotland and London.In 1981 he moved to the village of Saxlingham Nethergate in his home county of Norfolk. He was a member of the Norwich Twenty Group.

He painted Sax AD 832 in 1982 to celebrate 1,150 years of the village's history. The painting was auctioned at Christie's London on June 20,2007 and was sold for £692,000. Major exhibitions of Andrews' works were held by the Arts Council in 1981 and Tate Britain in 2001.

Michael Andrews played a deaf-mute in Lorenza Mazzetti's Free Cinema film Together, alongside Eduardo Paolozzi (1955).

Michael Andrews is a San Diegan musician and film score composer . Also known as Elgin Park, he is the guitarist and a founding member of The Greyboy Allstars . He graduated from La Jolla High School. He is touring this summer in support of his debut solo album Hand on String. Most of the time he can be found locked away in his Glendale, CA home studio, El