This Side Of The Sky

Album: Stephen Ward the Musical soundtrack (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a duet and the fifth song from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Stephen Ward. Running to 4 minutes 32 seconds on the original cast recording it is performed by Alexander Hanson as Ward and Charlotte Spencer as Christine Keeler at Cliveden, the home of the Astor family as Ward sketches his young companion. This idyll was short lived, and two years later, in July 1963, Ward would take a fatal overdose during his trial for living off the immoral earnings of Keeler and her fellow "model" Mandy Rice-Davies.

    Like the rest of the songs in this ill-fated show, "This Side Of The Sky" has lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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