Synopsis
Complete Lyrics of Noel Coward
$60
Noel Coward edited & annotated Barry Day - HARDBACK
Published by Methuen
This magnificent collection of over 500 lyrics, richly illustrated with over 200 photographs, includes sheet music, programmes and photos from original productions
Some 220 new lyrics and additional verses for existing songs have been discovered by Barrie Day and are published here for the first time, along with Day's commentaries about the genesis and context for all the material
This volume made news headlines when it was revealed that a whole cache of new lyrics were discovered in a Swiss bank vault. No one knew that Noël Coward had written so much undiscovered material
The great popular lyricists of the twentieth century can be counted on the fingers of one hand - Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammersmith . . . and Noël Coward