Books By Leslie Bricusse - Author

Double Oscar and Grammy winner Leslie Bricusse is a writer-composer-lyricist who has contributed to many musical films andplays during his career. He was born in London, and educated at University College School and Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was President of the Footlights Revue Club and founded the Musical Comedy Club. There, he co-authored, directed and performed in his first two musical shows, Out of the Blue and Lady at the Wheel, both of which made their way to London's West End. He also found time in the gaps to acquire a Master of Arts degree.The late, great Beatrice Lillie plucked him out of the Footlights Revue at the Phoenix Theatre, and made him her leading man in An Evening with Beatrice Lillie at the Globe Theatre, where he spent the first year of his professional life writing another musical, The Boy on the Corner, and the screenplay and score of his first motion picture, Charley Moon, which won him his first Ivor Novello Award. That year he decided to drop the possi