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Key Changes is a highly amusing, frank and personal account of the highs and lows of show business, from post-war Twice Nightly Variety for this day by renowned composer and performer, Denis Ruler. Known as an excellent anecdotalist, Ruler himself reads his memoirs which are funny, poignant and eye-opening; he also illustrates them along with his own piano-playing and personal audio archive. In the 1950s and early 1960s Ruler was a member of Britain's first-ever youngster band, The Ruler Brothers. Since then he has made up over 200 Television set designs, including ITV's award-winning The Escapades of Dark colored Beauty, and has collaborated with numerous theatre legends to create more than 25 level musicals - Privates on Parade among them. His career has encompassed every aspect of show business, undertaking to producing and composing; and he has experienced success alongside disaster and betrayal. The performers with whom Ruler spent some time working read just like a Who's Who of United kingdom and American level and screen: Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Tony Bennett, Nina Simone, Howard Keel, Sammy Cahn, Albert Finney, Dame Edna Everage, Maureen Lipman, Elaine Stritch, Julia McKenzie, Dudley Moore, Jimi Hendrix, Ronnie Corbett, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland... and so many more. Key Changes is not only a potted record or an extended name-drop. It is a funny, romantic portrait of the grind as well as the glamour in what many beyond your entertainment industry assume is a charmed way to earn a living. And indeed, according to Ruler, it often is.
