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Starlight Express is a 1984 musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. [1] It tells the story of a young but obsolete steam engine, Rusty, who races in a championship against modern locomotives of diesel and electric engines in the hope of impressing a first-class observation car, Pearl.
Campbell co-wrote the music and lyrics for the internationally successful children's TV series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends with Mike O'Donnell, [1] composing all music and songs during the classic period of Thomas films from 1984–2003, but when ownership of the production changed hands in 2003 after season 7.
Thomas the Tank Engine is an anthropomorphised fictional tank locomotive in the British Railway Series books by Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher, published from 1945.He became the most popular character in the series, and is the titular protagonist in the accompanying television series adaptation Thomas & Friends and its reboot Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go.
Stevie Wonder used the word in the album version (but not the single version) of his 1973 song "Living for the City." Freddie Mercury used the word in Queen's song "The March of the Black Queen" from the 1974 album Queen II. In 1975 Betty Davis used the word in her song "F.U.N.K."; Bob Dylan used the word in his song "Hurricane". [33]
The music video features over 100 cartoon characters from different production companies. Nearly all of the characters are voiced by their original UK voice artists [citation needed] including Ringo Starr (who was a member of the Beatles who recorded "Hey Jude", which is sung here) as Thomas the Tank Engine. [6]
The Thomas & Friends Series 18 episode "Thomas the Quarry Engine" (2014) ends with Mavis, Salty, Cranky, Thomas, and Porter singing the song. It is also sung in the Series 19 episode "Toad and the Whale" (2015). An instrumental version is heard in "Thomas & Friends in 4-D: Bubbling Boilers" (2016) on Mr. Bubbles' bubble machine.
Thomas & Friends (formerly known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) is a children's media franchise created by Britt Allcroft and currently owned by Mattel.The franchise revolves around an ensemble cast of anthropomorphic steam locomotives and other vehicles, including the main protagonist Thomas the Tank Engine, who work on the Island of Sodor.
The series in Japan is known as Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (きかんしゃトーマスとなかまたち), and is dubbed in Japanese. [57] Unlike the original English dub where the live-action model seasons of the series had the characters be consistently voiced by a single narrator, the Japanese dub featured a full voice cast for all ...