Key Changes: A Musical Memoir: Revised and Extended 2020 Edition
February 23, 2021 Last updated:
March 14, 2021
The name ‘Denis King’ should be much better known than it is, seeing that not only has he composed more than 200 themes for television including
Lovejoy, Black Beauty and
Hannay, he also wrote (with Peter Nichols) the Ivor Novello Award prize-winning RSC musical
Privates on Parade, the original production of which at London’s Piccadilly Theatre starred the indomitable Dennis Quilley. The King Brothers in 1952
However, as this very readable, fascinating and amusing book tells us, there is so much more to Denis King! Born in 1939 in Hornchurch, he played the banjolele in public when he was 6 and his father formed a group called ‘The King Brothers’ which toured Britain playing “twice-nightly” in what was left of Variety in the 1950s. Some of you may remember the group’s cover version of ‘Watching All the Girls go by’. It is these early chapters