Denis King

Denis Andrew King bornJuly 1939, Hornchurch, Essex is an English Ivor Novello awardwinning composer, singer and actor. He began his musical career at the age of six as a banjoleleplaying singer at childrens matinees and by the age of thirteen, with his two older brothers, Mike and Tony, was a member of one of the most successful pop groups of the Fifties and Sixties, The King Brothers considered by many to be Britains first Boy Band. Denis played the piano, Mike the guitar, Tony the double bass.

His debut as a theatrical composer was with the original 1977 Royal Shakespeare Theatres production of Privates On Parade book and lyrics by Peter Nichols which won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Musical. Other theatre productions include A Saint She Aint and The UnAmerican Songbook with Dick Vosburgh Stepping Out play The Musical with Richard Harris and Mary StewartDavid BASHVILLE and VALENTINES DAY with Benny Green Worzel Gummidge starring Jon Pertwee and Lost Empires with Keith Waterhouse amp Willis Hall Wind In The Willows and Treasure Island with Willis Hall West Five Story with Richard Harris Baby On Board with Mary StewartDavid for the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, where it was directed by Alan Ayckbourn. King has written extensively with Ayckbourn and together they have created the musicals Whenever, Orvin Champion Of Champions, and Awaking Beauty, which premiered in December 2008 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.

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