Lily the Musical
Words and Music by
John Clarke Palmer*
FIRST ACT
2 Waiting for my Chance to Come Along – RICK (young)
3 I Will Make You Wealthy – DAVE
4 Why Don't You Know (People are Suffering) – LILY
5 Everywhere I Look and Everywhere I Go – LILY & RICK
6 Precious Moments (Lovin’ in London Town) – RICK
7 We are Called to Take Action – LILY’s FATHER
8 You’re Everything to Me – LILY, RICK & FATHER
9 No I Can’t See Where I'm Going To – RICK
10 The People Have All Gone (It is War) – LILY
SECOND ACT
11 Modern Living is a Mess - RICK
12 The World is not Just Eye Candy – LILY
13 Talking Like That – DAVE & RICK
14 Let’s just get High – DAVE & RICK
15 You Sent Your Daughter – THE PROSECUTOR
16 Moving in Shadows - LILY’s FATHER
17 Tried to Change The World (Fruit of the Revolution) – LILY
19 Did You Really Think (Have it All) – RICK’s MOTHER
20 They Don't Hear When I Shout - LILY
21 Here are Ghosts – RICK (old)
Duration 38:40 mins
CAST in order of appearance
THE NARRATOR - Jenny Palmer
RICK (young and old) - John Clarke Palmer
DAVE (Rick’s agent and manager) - Phil King
LILY - Blythe Pepino
LILY’s FATHER - Pete Ev
THE PROSECUTOR - Hywel Dowsell
RICK’s MOTHER - Diana Mitchell
MUSIC PRODUCTION
Recorded and produced by John Clarke Palmer in his studio.
All guitars, basses, keyboards and drums played by John Clarke Palmer with the addition of authentic Cuban percussion played by Yosmany Gonzalez Garcia on tracks 1, 5, 6, 10, 15 & 19 (Guest vocalists recorded themselves remotely and emailed their contributions in due to lockdown restrictions)
Backing Vocals sung by Blythe Pepino and John Clarke Palmer
Narration script developed by Jenny Palmer and John Clarke Palmer with additional story consultation by LL Bowden
*Music on track 18 by Sir Arthur Sullivan
The Story
Lily is a young environment activist who wants to change the world for the better. She meets up with Rick, a naive aspiring guitar player and against her better judgement she falls for his boyish charm. However Lily is under the influence of her father who is a dangerous radical who wants her to carry out industrial sabotage overseas. When Rick finds all this out a disastrous chain of events follows