Rupert Holmes

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Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein on February 24, 1947) is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, dramatist and author.

He is widely known for the hit singles "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" (1979) and "Him" (1980).

He is also known for his musicals Drood, which earned him two Tony Awards, and Curtains, and for his television series Remember WENN.

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Life and career

David Goldstein was born in Northwich, Cheshire, England, and Holmes was born David Goldstein. Leonard Eliot Goldstein, his father, was a United States Army warrant officer and bandleader. Gwendolen Mary (née Pynn), his mother, was English, and both of them were musical. Holmes has dual citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States. Holmes and his family moved to Nanuet, New York, where Holmes grew up and attended nearby Nyack High School and then the Manhattan School of Music (majoring in clarinet). Richard Holmes, Holmes' brother, appears in opera companies such as Glimmerglass, Lake George, and Virginia Opera, as well as the Metropolitan Opera.

Elizabeth "Liza" Wood Dreifuss, an attorney, married Holmes in 1969. Wendy's daughter Wendy died suddenly in 1986, at the age of ten, from an undiagnosed brain tumor. Nick, a filmmaker, and Timothy, who is autistic, have two sons. They went from Scarsdale, New York, where they had been living since Wendy's death, to Cold Spring, New York, in 2009.

Holmes, who was in his twenties, was a session guitarist, writing and arranging songs, singing, and playing a few instruments. Holmes and Ron Dante (the Cuff Links, the Archies) recorded "Jennifer Tomkins" for release on their second album, The Cuff Links, in 1969. Dante was forbidden by the studio that made the Archies from any involvement in new recording projects during the recording of the album and was forced to withdraw from The Cuff Links. Holmes finished the project and announced "Jennifer Tomkins" separately under a new studio name, Street People (not related to the mid-1970s band of the same name). For 15 weeks, beginning January 3, 1970, the song was on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching a record of 36. In April 1970, a follow-up single titled "Thank You Girl" reached 96 on the Billboard pop charts.

Holmes performed the piano for both the Cuff Links and the Buoys, with whom he had his first international success, "Timothy," which was on the Hot 100 for 17 weeks beginning on January 2, 1971, a No. 66. A cannibalism cannibalism song that intentionally drew controversies. "Get Your Guns," he wrote, also starred in "Give Up Your Arms" (which peaked at No. 1). "The Prince of Thieves" (84), "Blood Knot," and "Tomorrow" for the band. Holmes also wrote jingles and pop tunes (including for Gene Pitney, the Drifters, Wayne Newton, Dolly Parton, Barry Manilow, and television's Partridge Family), as well as the score of the 1970 revenge western, Five Savage Men (also known as The Animals), which starred Keenan Wynn.

Holmes, a recording artist, came out with his first album, 1974's Widescreen on Epic Records, which introduced him as a performer of intricately orchestrated "story songs" that told a sarcastic story punctuated by witty rhymes and a hint of comedic. Barbra Streisand discovered this album and wanted to perform songs from it, assuaging Holmes to have a fruitful career. In the film A Star Is Born, she performed some of his songs. Holmes also wrote, produced, and performed songs on her 1975 album Lazy Afternoon, as well as five other Streisand albums. Rolling Stone likened Holmes' second, self-titled album to Bob Dylan in the sense of being an artist of extraordinary originality that commanded attention.

During this period, Holmes' manufacturing skills were still in demand, and he performed on her album Tigers and Fireflies, which spawned the radio hit "Hollywood Romance." Holmes and de Paul co-authored the album's "Twas" bluesy song "Twas." Sparks' 1976 LP, Big Beat, was also produced, but the album was not a hit, unfortunately. Holmes wrote the UK band Sailor's album (CBS Epic) in 1975, together with Jeffrey Lesser.

On Holmes' fifth album, Partners in Crime, "Escape (The Pia Colada Song)" was included, and it was the final Hot 100 No. 1st of 1979. "Him" was another hit on the Hot 100, and it debuted at number six. With "Answering Machine," he had another top-40 hit. Holmes's album "You Got It All Over Him"), a top-three hit single for The Jets and later appeared in her internationally released version of Oops! I Did It Again (2000). Judy Collins' album Sanity and Grace also featured two songs for singer Judy Collins. Susannah McCorkle's "The People You Never Get to Love" was one of four albums on sale (1983). Frank Sinatra Jr. performed the song on his own album That Face. (2006) The album was released on June 6.

Holmes performed in cabarets and comedy clubs, mainly in New York City, illustrating autobiographical tales in his songs. Jimmy says he is making a documentary about Holmes and sings in a 2016 episode of Better Call Saul, and he appears on "Escape." Holmes received an honorary Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Manhattan School of Music in 2021.

In 1985, Holmes made his debut as a playwright in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Joseph Papp and his wife were encouraged to write a musical after attending one of Holmes' cabarets in 1983. The result, which was loosely based on Charles Dickens' unfinished book of the same name and inspired by Holmes' memories of English pantomime shows he attended as a child, was a hit in Central Park and Broadway in New York. Holmes used the unusual practice of giving alternate endings for each character who is suspected of the murder and then allowing the audience to choose a different murderer each night because Dickens left the book unfinished at his death. Among other awards, Holmes was given the Tony Award for both book and score, as well as the Drama Desk Awards for lyrics, music, the book, and orchestrations. The musical has been revived in London and Broadway, among other things. Holmes hopes to write more plays (both musical and non-) in later years, but he has said he avoided musical theater for some time after his daughter's death.

Holmes also wrote the Tony Award-nominated ("Best Play 2003"), based on George Burns' friendship with Gracie Allen. The play, which starred Frank Gorshin, was the longest-running solo-performance show in Broadway history and the third longest-running solo-performance show in Broadway history. In 1990, he wrote Accomplice, the second of Holmes's plays to receive an Edgar Award (following Drood). Holmes has written Solitary Confinement, which performed on Broadway in 1992 and set a new Kennedy Center box office record before its Broadway debut; and the musical Marty (2002), starring John C. Reilly. He wrote the book to Swango: The Theatrical Dance Experience, a swing-tango dance piece that premiered Off-Broadway in 2002, inspired by Romeo and Juliet. Many revivals have occurred. After the deaths of Peter Stone (the original book-writer) and Fred Ebb (the lyricist), Holmes joined the musical Curtains' creative team. Holmes rewrote Stone's original book and wrote additional lyrics to the Kander and Ebb songs. David Hyde Pierce and Debra Monk starred in the lead roles at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway, and Curtains performed. Holmes and Peter Stone (posthumously) received the 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for Curtains.

Holmes wrote the book The First Wives' Club, which was based on the same film. In 2009, the musical premiere at The Old Globe Theater in San Diego, California. Its score is by Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, and Eddie Holland. The product received mainly critical feedback, but it did well. Linda Bloodworth-Thomason wrote a new book, and the reworked exhibit opened in Chicago in 2015. With a new story line set in the Mad Men era of 1962, Holmes wrote the book for a jukebox musical, Robin and the 7 Hoods, based on the 1964 film starring Frank Sinatra. Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen also wrote "My Kind of Town" in their collections. In 2010, a performance appeared at the Old Globe, as well as in 2010. Casey Nicholaw was both a producer and a choreographer. The tale revolves around a likable gangster who is attempting to get out of the drug trade. He is likened by a do-gooding television journalist to a modern-day Robin Hood.

Holmes adapted A Time to Kill, John Grisham's book and film for the stage. In 2011, the play premiered at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC. "funny, shocking, witty, and sly" was the courtroom drama, set against a background of transforming 1980s Southern racial politics. The Nutty Professor, a musical based on the 1963 film of the same name, wrote the book and lyrics for it. The score was written by Marvin Hamlisch. Jerry Lewis produced the musical, which premiered in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2012. He wrote songs for the 2013 Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, with Hamlisch. Secondhand Lions: A New Musical, which premiered in Seattle, Washington, in 2013, was author Edward de Silva's next book. On Broadway, a Time to Kill was produced, but there were only four weeks of previews, ending on November 17, 2013. The Sweet Potato Queens, 2016 with music by Melissa Manchester, lyrics by Sharon Vaughn, and a book by Holmes premiered at TUTS Underground.

Holmes created Remember WENN for American Movie Classics in 1996, writing the theme song and all 56 episodes of the film. He published Where the Truth Lies, his first book (later converted into a film starring Atom Egoyan), in 2005, Swing, a multimedia release combining a novel and a music CD providing clues to the mystery. In 2023, McMasters' The McMasters Guide to Homicide: Murder Your Employer, his next book, is due to be published.

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