Publisher's Synopsis
Includes over 200 newly found lyrics. This is the first time that thecomplete lyrics of Noël Coward have been published together. Includessheet music, programmes and photos from original productions.
Thismagnificent collection of over 500 lyrics, richly illustrated with over200 photographs, will lead the way in celebrating the centenary ofCoward's birth in 1999. Some 220 new lyrics and additional verses forexisting songs have been discovered by Barry Day and are publishedhere for the first time, along with Day's commentaries about thegenesis and context for all the material. This volume made newsheadlines when it was revealed that a whole cache of new lyrics werediscovered in a Swiss bank vault. No one knew that Noël Coward hadwritten so much undiscovered material.
The great popularlyricists of the twentieth century can be counted on the fingers of onehand - Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammersmith . . .and Noël Coward.
