Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmesis a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, and author of plays, novels, and stories. He is widely known for the hit singles "Escape"and "Him". He is also known for his musicals Drood, which earned him two Tony Awards, and Curtains, and for his television series Remember WENN...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 February 1947
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When you write songs for the theatre-particularly if you are also the author of the libretto-you can create any world you want. And then you get to write the songs that people who live in that world would sing.
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A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
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The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.
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I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.
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Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.
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I've applied to the humor commission for a license to have humor in the book. I haven't been given permission so far. I'm awaiting their verdict.
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I was a purported composer with some self-taught notions about how to orchestrate for cinematic instrumentation, but no one was exactly knocking at my door. If you'd seen the apartment I was subletting at the time, you wouldn't have knocked at my door either.
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For me, the most memorable adventures are still the perils that we face daily in life and love, from the mundane to the meaningful. Where the comedy is often at our own expense, but where the drama, even if painful, reminds us that we are living and feeling here in the real time, with the ever-recurring possibility that this latest chapter will end with new understanding, hope and perhaps even happiness.
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I'd been a cult singer-songwriter generally well-regarded by some of the better vocalists and journalists of the seventies. Suddenly, a mass audience perceived me as a troubadour who'd dedicated his life to extolling the virtues of pineapple-based beverages.
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I grew up watching Burns and Allen on TV. They did some amazing things on the TV show, they did surreal things. Gracie would be conspiring with her neighbor Blanche to put something over on George.
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To my knowledge, there's never been a duo of a brash American and a polite Brit and it's kind of an interesting dynamic for a comedy team, ... I think Colin and Kevin could always fall back on that if they have to.
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But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!
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Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
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Kevin was very nice at the Q&A after the movie. He told the audience to go and get the book,