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Buy this book on-line INVERNE, JOHN - Foreword by John Barry: : Wrestling With Elephants: The Authorised Biography of Don Black. [Subject SIGNED copy.]LONDON.SANCTUARY PUBLISHIBNG LIMITED,2003. ISBN 1860744680.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but subject's (Don Black) handwritten,black ink inscrptn+ signature:'AS ALWAYS - Don Black' to half-title page,dw/dj unclipped - as no publisher's price present to same.Bright, crisp,clean b/w+colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages corners' - possibly an unread copy? Sharp-cornered,bright, clean,black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,with black endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,9-222pp [paginated] includes foreword by John Barry,author introduction,overture+15 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w photographs between pp96/7,Don Black's 10 Golden Rules of Lyric-writing,appendices (2 - Musicals & Filmography),an index,plus [unpaginated] SIGNED half-title page,title page, acknowledgements,a dedication and contents list/table.
How do you get from the poverty of London's East End to the glitz and glamour of the Oscars? From doing stand-up comedy at strip joints to writing hit songs for the likes of Michael Jackson,Barbara Streisand and Tom Jones? From Hackney to Hollywood? 'Wrestling With Elephants' is the real-life adventure of a working-class London boy who wanted to write songs.Born to humble beginnings in the 1930's,over the last 40 years Don Black has written hundreds of lyrics for some of the most enduring hits of screen and stage - classics such as 'The Italian Job', 'Diamonds Are Forever','Born Free' and 'Sunset Boulevard'.
With frank and entertaining tales of Black's experiences as one of 007's regular songwriters,the trials and triumphs of musicals such as 'Tell Me On A Sunday' and 'Bombay Dreams',and featuring fascinating accounts of his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber,Michael Jackson, Elaine Paige,John Barry,Denise van Outen and many more,'Wrestling With Elephants' chronicles the astonishing life of the first British songwriter ever to win an Oscar.
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