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General
Information
Queen Involvement
Story & Track Listing
Characters
'The
Dave Clark Five And Beyond - Glad All Over' Documentary
General Information
Devised and created by Dave Clark
Lyrics by David Soames
Music by Jeff Daniels
Musical Director: Mike Moran
World Premiere held at the Dominion Theatre, London, on 9th April
1986.
A fan page containing more information about the musical can be
found here.
The musical performed to more than 1 million people, while the
soundtrack album and various singles sold over 12 million copies
in total.
Queen Involvement
'Time' featured two tracks which Freddie Mercury recorded, and
were included on the cast album. However, he did not appear in
the musical itself, except at a special charity performance on 14
April 1988. During this appearance he performed the same two
tracks, plus 'Born To Rock 'n' Roll' and 'It's In Every One Of
Us', a duet with Cliff Richard.
The title track Time
appears twice in the musical, once at the rock concert, just
before the rock star is teleported to the trial, and again at the
end of the trial, when the rock star is teleported back to Earth.
The track was released as a single in 1986, with an instrumental
version on the B-side, and an extended version on the 12"
single, and reached no. 32 in the chart. The track was remixed in
1992 by Nile Rodgers and appears on 'The Freddie Mercury Album'.
The second track is In My
Defence, which was initially only included on the cast album.
It was remixed in 1992 by Ron Nevison and appears on 'The Freddie
Mercury Album', and was also released as a single, reaching no. 8
in the chart.
The 'Freddie Mercury: Solo' 10CD/2DVD set includes all of the
above versions, with the addition of an instrumental version of
'In My Defence'. Meanwhile, the 3CD set includes both tracks,
remixed by Dave Clark in 2000.
Both tracks were also included on the 2006 'Lover Of Life -
Singer Of Songs' compilation (the original version of 'Time' and
2000 Remix of 'In My Defence') and the 2016 'Messenger Of The
Gods' compilation (both 2000 Remixes, and also the instrumental version of 'Time').
The album of 'Time' was re-released on iTunes in May 2012, as two
separate downloads, one for each act, with act 1 featuring 'Time'
and 'In My Defence', and act 2 featuring the reprise of 'Time'.
Story & Track
Listing
The basic plot is that a rock concert is taking place, but
suddenly, mid-song, the Rock Star and Louise are transported to a
distant planet. Lord Melchisedic, the time lord, decides that
they must justify that they are not a threat to universal peace.
Akash, the judge, eventually decides that the people of Earth are
not a threat and that the planet can continue to exist. The Rock
Star and Louise are returned to earth and the concert continues.
The album features narration by Laurence Olivier, and features
numerous performers playing the part of the Rock Star. The
brackets below show the characters and performers, with brief
details of the singles which were released.
Side One:
Side Two:
Side Three:
Side Four:
Characters
Various performers play the Rock Star, and the following are
listed on the album cover:
'The Dave Clark Five And Beyond - Glad All Over' Documentary
This 114 minute documentary film was released in April 2014 and
tells the story of The Dave Clark Five's career, from their
foundation to break-up, and Dave Clark's subsequent projects.
Fourteen minutes of the film focus on the 'Time' musical, from
approximately 1:29 to 1:43. It features interviews with many of
the people involved, including Dave Clark, Freddie, Sir Laurence
Olivier, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick and Julian Lennon, as well
as fans including Sir Ian McKellan, Whoopi Goldberg and Gene
Simmons. It features a mixture of new and archive interviews,
while Freddie's interviews date from 1986 with most of the
footage previously unseen.
The film also features photographs and footage of the musical,
photographs from the recording sessions, audio excerpts of many
of the tracks, including both 'Time' and 'In My Defence', and
footage from the 'Time' video.
The film was shown at 10pm on BBC2 on Saturday, 14th February
2015, and repeated at least a couple of times afterwards. It has
also been released on DVD and Blu-ray in the USA, and details are
available in the discography
and gallery.
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