Mark Pentleton

This song started life in 1982 when it was released as the third single by Tears for Fears. A reworked version in 2001 by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews gave a different style to the song and it was used in the soundtrack for the movie Donnie Darko. In the first of the studio finals [...]

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Today’s song comes from the second act of the musical Phantom of the Opera and is sung as a duet in counterpoint by the Phantom and Christine. It comes just before the moment in the musical when the Phantom’s disfigured face is revealed.
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Today’s song comes from the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. First performed as a 15-minute “pop-cantata” in 1968, the show has grown into a full-length West End and Broadway production featuring performers such as Jason Donovan, Philip Schofield and Donny Osmond.
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