A RENOWNED songwriter is coming to Blackburn to support the fundraising team at the Thwaites Empire Theatre – and he has written a new piece for the occasion.
Barry Mason was behind the song classics from Tom Jones, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand, The Drifters, Englebert Humperdink, Charles Aznavour and Elvis Presley.
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He will be in Blackburn to tell the story of his life and to perform some of them himself in a show called, ‘Remember Delilah’ on Saturday, November 1, at the Aqueduct Street venue when he will also debut a new song dedicated to Lancashire entitled, ‘Red, Red Rose’.
Theatre chairman Michael Berry said: “When you look at the list of hits, Delilah, The Last Waltz, Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes, There Goes My First Love, you can only marvel that the songs that have become the soundtrack of our lives could have come from one local man in Wigan.”
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