But thankfully, my first album, ‘Wide Screen,’ was sort of a critics’ darling – everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn’t even in the running for failure!
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Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
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I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don’t have the consolation of knowing they’re in a comedy.
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Birth: | 24th February, 1947 |
Nationality: | American, British |
Profession: | Author, Composer, Musician, Lyricist, Singer |
Rupert Holmes is a British and American composer, singer-songwriter, musician and author of plays, novels and stories. He is best known for his number one pop hit "Escape and the song "Him", which reached the number 6 position on the Hot 100 U.S. pop chart in 1980.
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