Michael Ball
The Perfect Song (Download)
Cat. No.: DDUSM098
Barcode: 0698458909886
Playing Time: 2 mins 59 secs
LC Code: LC20400
Released March 18th 2013
Michael Ball, Britain’s leading musical theatre star,
Laurence-Olivier Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist returns with
a superb brand new single.
The Perfect Song is the first collaboration between Andrew
Lloyd-Webber and Leslie Bricusse (Doctor Dolittle, Goodbye Mr Chips, Hook and
many other hit musicals)
Michael Ball reveals how Michael Caine inspired the Perfect
Song while at a 10 Downing Street party - as told by Michael Ball to Steve
Wright on Radio 2: “I was at another do, as you do, it’s Christmas etc, I was
telling Andrew Lloyd Webber that I had a song for the album that Tim Rice had
written. He says “I’ve just written a song and you should have it. It’s a
fabulous story”, he says “I was in L.A last week for Leslie Bricusse’s 82nd
birthday”, this is Andrew Lloyd Webber talking to me, I’m in Downing Street
actually and the story gets bigger. Andrew goes on “And Michael Caine says to
Leslie and I, have you never written a song together and we thought this was a
great idea. So Andrew asks Leslie for a song title, Leslie have him the title
‘The Perfect Song’. Andrew left the party, sat in a cab and wrote the song, and
sent it over to Leslie, Leslie wrote a lyric.