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Starlight Express / Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber ‎/ Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe / Polydor ‎2x Audio CD 1984 UPC 042282159724 /// Label: Polydor ‎– 042282159724 Format: 2 × CD, Album Country: Germany Released: 1984 Genre: Stage & Screen Style: Musical /// Tracklist: Act One 1-1 Overture 2:19 1-2 Rolling Stock 3:13 1-3 Call Me Rusty 3:49 1-4 A Lotta Locomotion 3:17 1-5 Pumping Iron 3:18 1-6 Freight 4:24 1-7 AC/DC 5:04 1-8 He Whistled At Me 4:27 1-9 The Race 3:27 1-10 There's Me 3:49 1-11 Poppa's Blues 4:10 1-12 Belle The Sleeping Car 3:47 1-13 Starlight Express 5:04 Act Two 2-1 The Rap 4:51 2-2 U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D. 3:21 2-3 Rolling Stock (Reprise) 2:19 2-4 C.B. 5:34 2-5 Right Place, Right Time 4:10 2-6 I Am The Starlight 4:11 2-7 He Whistled At Me (Reprise) 2:16 2-8 Race: The Final 4:29 2-9 No Comeback 2:18 2-10 One Rock 'n' Roll Too Many 2:48 2-11 Only Me 4:20 2-12 Only You 3:36 2-13 Light At The End Of The Tunnel 4:34 Lyrics By – Richard Stilgoe Music By – Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Between his megahits Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber came up with one of his slightest efforts, Starlight Express. The composer admitted it was targeted at kids--centering on a set of trains and the plot of The Little Engine That Could--yet it lacks the charm of his other kids' show, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. While the live staging was exciting, featuring costumed roller skaters racing around, over, and through the audience, the score is one of Lloyd Webber's least subtle demonstrations of his ability to compose in different musical styles--country ("U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D."), blues ("Poppa's Blues"), rock ("Rolling Stock"), funk ("C.B."), rap ("The Rap"), and the like. Of course, there are some catchy tunes plus one hit (the title tune), and Richard Stilgoe's lyrics are sometimes cutely clever and sometimes banal ("Starlight Express, you must confess, are you real, yes or no / Starlight Express, please answer 'yes,' I don't want you to go."). The show was revised and revived in 1992, switching some songs, removing the most obvious cold-war references, and adding one pop single ("Next Time You Fall in Love"). --David Horiuchi

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 5 x 1 inches; 6.38 ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Polydor
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2006
• Label ‏ : ‎ Polydor
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2