As teenage art
students growing up in the early 60�s, my wife-to-be Mary and
myself, like most young people at the time, (and still true today)
�lived� for music. The most important things in our lives were the
next Beatles or Stones single. Indeed, I had my own pop group and
cut half a dozen or so singles with major record companies. I failed
abysmally and in the 70�s I sought my fortunes elsewhere.
You can therefore appreciate that, in 1995 when fellow Bristolian
and international songwriter Roger Cook sent me a tape of the music
he and Les Reed had written for a musical, I was all ears. Of the
numerous hit songs Roger had written during a career that dates back
to the 60s, perhaps he�s best known for songs like the Coca Cola
anthem of the 70�s - I�d Like To Teach The World To Sing
, Crystal
Gale�s signature tune Talking In Your Sleep
and Something�s Gotten
Hold Of My Heart, immortalised by Gene Pitney . Likewise, Les, as
Roger, had over the years written numerous hit songs, including all
time classics such as It�s Not Unusual
and Delilah
for Tom Jones and The Last Waltz
for Engelbert Humperdinck.
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