The Songsters - Signy, Larry
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Showbiz. A word that simply sums up glamour - with a large-sized capital G. Here is all that glitz in the story of two songwriters - a musician and a lyricist - who meet, start to work together, have a small success, then get 'conned' into writing a big musical show. The two are composers - one a young, serious Australian dedicated to writing music 'in the old-fashioned way', and the other an English lyricist with an apparently couldn't-care-less attitude but nevertheless in love with writing words to music. Set vaguely just after the Swinging Sixties, they live in a world where amusement and…mehr

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Showbiz. A word that simply sums up glamour - with a large-sized capital G. Here is all that glitz in the story of two songwriters - a musician and a lyricist - who meet, start to work together, have a small success, then get 'conned' into writing a big musical show. The two are composers - one a young, serious Australian dedicated to writing music 'in the old-fashioned way', and the other an English lyricist with an apparently couldn't-care-less attitude but nevertheless in love with writing words to music. Set vaguely just after the Swinging Sixties, they live in a world where amusement and entertainment are centred around live stage shows, big screen films or early days television. It is a world before social media takes control - where people talk to each other rather than into a piece of electronic equipment and listen to music on vinyl discs or the more modern tapes or discs. It is a world of mysterious allure and dreams, and the two songsters fit into it perfectly. They slot into the alluring fascination of preparing a London West End musical, and the readers can follow their exciting, enchanting journey as they make their initial recording and then help develop, rehearse and stage the show.
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The author has been a journalist all his life - local newspapers, freelancing with British national papers, then working in film and TV publicity before returning to provincial newspapers as a military correspondent. Forced to retire against his will twenty-one years ago, he continued with freelance and charity PR work. Now 90, for the last eight years he has been the sole carer for a wife with Alzheimer's, but now she has moved into a care home for full-time medical care and he has resumed writing. Although he had published stories before, The Songsters is his first published novel.