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Richard Stilgoe
12+ albums
70s80sSoundtrackoperalyricist
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Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe OBE (b. 28 March 1943) is a British songwriter, lyricist and musician. He is noted for clever wordplay as much as for his music. Stilgoe was born in Camberley, Surrey but brought up in Liverpool—where as lead singer of a group calling itself 'Tony Snow and the Blizzards' he performed at the Cavern Club. He was educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset and at Clare College, Cambridge where he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights. In 1966 he played the role of Benjamin in the West End musical Jorrocks. He made his name on the BBC television teatime programme Nationwide, followed by Esther Rantzen's That's Life!, a light-hearted consumer affairs programme for which he wrote comic songs satirising various minor domestic misfortunes. His ability to write a song from almost any source material and at prodigious speed is part of his cabaret act, which includes such diverse gems as singing the instructions from a Swedish payphone; a pastiche of the King's Singers listing all the kings and queens of England in which he sings all four parts; and composing a song in the interval from a series of words and musical notes called out by the audience. He has also written and presented numerous BBC radio programmes, including Hamburger Weekend, Used Notes, Stilgoe's Around, Maestro and Richard Stilgoe's Traffic Jam Show, on BBC Radio 4. As well as being a comic of no small gift Stilgoe is a serious musician, writing lyrics for Starlight Expre
top songs
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The Phantom Of The Opera - Feat. Chris Thompson
2292The Phantom of the Opera/Act 1. Scene 4. The Phantom of the Opera
2073The Phantom of the Opera/Act 1. Scene 5. The Music of the Night
1724Starlight Express
1475The Phantom of the Opera/Act 1. Scene 10. All I Ask of You
1436The Phantom of the Opera/Act 2. Scene 5. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Agai
1437The Phantom of the Opera/Act 2. Scene 7. The Point of No Return
1388Rolling Stock
1319Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
11610The Phantom of the Opera
113albums
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The Phantom of the Opera [Original Cast] Disc 1
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Symphony: Live In Vienna
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The Phantom of the Opera [Original Cast] Disc 2
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Starlight Express [Original London Cast] Disc 1
A Quiet Night Out (Live at The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham)
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Starlight Express [Original London Cast] Disc 2
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Who Plays Wins
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Andrew Lloyd Webber 60
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Who Plays Wins (Live at the Vaudeville Theater)
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A Quiet Night Out
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Phantom of the Opera [Canadian Cast]
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The Number One Musicals Album