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Rupert Holmes (born February 24, 1947 in Cheshire) is a composer and writer who is best known for the 1979 novelty hit "Escape" (later subtitled "The Piña Colada Song") but has got the varied & distinguished career around many media. That a single song is and so strongly associated using him that, inside 1 [http://www.rupertholmes.com/writings/new_york_magazine.html interview], he reflected that his headstone will swell exist as the gargantuan pineapple. "Escape" was involved in his fifth album, Partners inside Crime, & reached the Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1979. Holmes antecedently got been in A band a Buoys which produced the song "Timothy" just about cannibalism. Holmes late became a foremost so far lone human only-single-handed to receive Tony Awards for book, music and lyrics, for the 1986 Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Within 1987 his composition "You Got It All" (another time known as "You Got It All Over Him") was the hit lone for The Jets and later recorded by pop genius Britney Spears. Inside 1996 he created the television series Remember WENN for American Movie Classics. Inside 2003 he published his first novel, Where a Truth Lies (late filmed), followed within 2005 by Swing, a multimedia release combining the novel by owning a music Video providing clues to the mystery.
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