Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: July 20, 1999
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305395934
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #601,820 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Celebrate the genius of Noel Coward with fresh performances of his classic songs. Elton John, Marianne Faithfull and Sting, some of the most distinctive British voices of the last forty years, interpret the songs of the man who defined Britishness for an entire era.Songs: Twentieth Century Blues (Elton John), Poor Little Rich Girl (Suede featuring Raissa), Mad About the Boy (Marianne Faithfull), Marvelous Party (The Divine Comedy), Someday I'll Find You (Shola Ama), Sail Away, If Love Were All (Pet Shop Boys), I'll Follow My Secret Heart (Sting), There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner (Robbie Williams).

Customer Reviews

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Noel Coward lives again., August 29, 1999

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Shawn Swickard (Lexington, Kentucky USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Twentieth Century Blues: Songs of Noel Coward (DVD)

This tribute concert video/dvd (and CD album version)were the brainchild of Neil Tennant. Tennant, the lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys, has always admired Coward. Tennant's songwriting reflects this fact.

This outstanding gala event celebrates the life of Britain's most talented songwriter & playwright. This video presentation merges modern covers of his most famous songs - made more potent with speeches and video montages.

The performances by The Divine Comedy and Suede outshine the headliners!

This DVD/Video is very entertaining and informative. It's perfect for Coward fans, Pet Shop Boys fans, and everyone else in between.

* note: there is a second Pet Shop Boys tune on the programme that is not listed on the tracklisting. I'd say what it is, but that would spoil the fun.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Spotty., October 10, 2007

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Casper Melick (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Twentieth Century Blues: Songs of Noel Coward (DVD)

This is a must-have for Coward fans if only as a curio--but it's not really great work. Several of the artists seem not to understand what's going on in the songs. (For example, Vic Reeves, in "Don't Put Your Daughter On The Stage, Mrs. Worthington," makes the mistake of saying "She was as lovely as Peer Gynt" instead of "She was lovely as 'Peer Gynt'"--obviously not bothering to find out who or what Peer Gynt is, nor how to pronounce "ingenue.")

Texas' version of "Parisian Pierrot" is excellent, and so is Marianne Faithfull's poignant rendition of "Mad About The Boy," but the real highlight is the Pet Shop Boys' cover of "Sail Away": meticulous phrasing; a wonderful short guitar solo that you could imagine being performed by The Shadows; clever use of nautical sound effects. Coward himself would have hated it but I love it.

There are more misses than hits on this CD--but again, it's worth adding to the library if you're a Cowardophile.

1.0 out of 5 stars you will get the blues from this, August 2, 2008

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boston fan (usa) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Twentieth Century Blues: Songs of Noel Coward (DVD)

i love coward and collect everything i get my hands on
i see every play possible and every movie of his
but this is a real problem
it should be avoided unless you must have every coward program that exists
its pretty bad