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Willy Russell is well known
as the writer of plays and films such as Educating Rita,
Shirley Valentine, Our Day Out, and
the musical Blood Brothers. His work has attracted
huge and appreciative audiences all over the world and his plays
and musicals have won countless awards.
His first novel, The
Wrong Boy, published in 2000, has been translated into
fifteen languages and is currently being adapted for a major
television series.
What is perhaps less well known
is that Willy has been writing songs since the early 1960s. He
wrote not only the book and the lyrics but also the score for
his musical Blood Brothers (in continuous production
for the past twenty odd years). Add to this the fact that he
has provided the scores for the feature films, Shirley
Valentine, Dancin' Thru The Dark and Mr
Love as well as for the TV series Connie
and the television play Terraces and you might
start to wonder how he's managed to keep this side of his work
such a closely guarded secret. Willy's first CD release - HOOVERING
THE MOON - has received favourable reviews and been picked
up and played by radio stations across the country. The CD is
available direct from this web-site, from record shops and is
also available as a iTunes download from Apple.com ©.
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