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STEPHEN FRY'S

INCOMPLETE amp; UTTER HISTORY

AS TOLD TO TIM LIHOREAU

INTRODUCTION

FRENCH WITHOUT EARS

CAT GUT YOUR TONGUE?

THAT'S MY GAL

LYRE, LYRE, PANTS ON FIRE

THE GUTI CALL

IF I HAD A HAMMURABI

SUMERIA 1, EGYPT 0

MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE I'M A LESBIAN…

PLATONIC SOLFA

INSTRUMENTAL INSTITUTION

GETTING ORGANIZED

JC. AND I DON'T MEAN BACH

AMBROSE!

NON UNUS BOTULUS

I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING… IN PERFECT MONODY

FROM 'STAFF' TO DISTAFF

THE FIRST MUSICAL JOKE (BUT NOT MOZART'S)

3. The one that can't be published.

SPIRES INSPIRE

SUMER L'UV IN. ADME A BLAS

ARS IS NOT TO REASON WHY

FRANCO IN GENERAL

MACHAUT MUST GO ON

MASS HYSTERIA

THE FIRST RHYTHM METHOD

WHAT'S THE COUNTERPOINT?

REBIRTH

I

JOS YOU, JOS ME…

FILL THE SPACE

RENAISSANCE MAN

JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE, RINGO, WILL AND TOM

PRESS ON

THE FIRST EVER OPERA (BUT ONE)

IF IT'S NOT BAROQUE…

GOODBYE, LOVE. HELLO, LUVVIES!

BATON CHARGE

LULLY. FALSY SENSY SECURITY

PASS THE PURCELL

J + 0 + H + A + N + N = 62' I

2 13 8 I

ANT AND HIS SISTERS

THE PACKAGE HOLIDAY

SO THE OLD ADAGIO GOES

DON'T FORGET NATHAN THE PROPHET!

TOCCATA AND FEUD

WAR AND PEACE MORE WAR

CRITICAL MASS

BAROQUE STARS

ARNE STORMING!

TIME OUT 1749

DANDY

BEANO

WHIZZER AND CHIPS

ORPHEUS IN HIS UNDERPANTS

YOUR NAME NOT BACH?

GOT ANY GOSSEC?

THE PRODIGY

HAYDN - ESTERHAZY DOING?

TAME TIME TEAM TOME

MOZART OF NOISE

SIGNIFICANT BIRTHDAY NEXT YEAR

GOETHE HEAVEN

AMADEUS AND SO'S MY WIFE

JUST GONE HALF SIX

THE RATHER GORY

VIRTUOSO REALITY

BEETHOVEN READY

VAN THE MAN

DE DE DE DERRR

AFTER THE PREVIOUS NINE YEARS

SCHUBERT'S 8TH SYMPHO

A BOTTLE OF YOUR FINEST 1825

THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS THEN TOO

HIHO, ROSSINI… AWAY!

CH-CH-CH-CHANGES

THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT - ONLY NOT IN THAT ORDER

OPERA III - THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD

FRENCH POLISH?

RPM'

BLACK AND WHITE RAGE

WELL, BERGAMO

BERLIOZ'S STRANGE RUN-IN

ANOTHER FINE MESSE

SPECIALIST SUBJECT 1837-1841: 'YOUR TIME STARTS NOW…'

A SERIOUS MATER

NEBUCHADNEZZAR OPUS

START

NATION SHALL SING A PIECE UNTO NATION

THE WHOLE WAGNER

THIS WHOLE WAGNER THING, ONLY A LITTLE BIT DEEPER

GOING DUTCH, MAN!

IT'S 1845: HERE IS THE NEWS

THE NAME'S WAGNER… RICHARD WAGNER!

1 1-1 =WO

LEIT MUSIC

ISN'T IT ROMANTIC?

RICHARD, THE GREAT, AND VIV THE REVOLUTION

EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT

JAKE AND ELWOOD.

AND RICHARD

WOMEN ARE LIARS

EIGHT MINUTES TO SEVEN

JANUARY 19TH AND MARCH 6TH 1853

BRAHMS AND 'THE MAN'

TRISTAN SHOUT!

RECKANKREUZUNGS KLANGKEWERKZEUGE!

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE SLEEPING GIANT

NIGHT ON A BALD MOUNTAIN

I

1

BRING ME THE HEAD OF PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY!

THE SEVENTIES FLARES AND FALLIBILITY

STEPHEN FRY'S

I V 1874

THE BIDET BELONGING TO GEORGE

COMPLETELY

Chapter 7, Verses 9-21. Out of print. ©

SAX AND VIOLINS

THE DAVID HUGHES MEMORIAL PARAGRAPHS

MISS BRAHMS AND MISS OUT!

TWELVE MINUTES PAST SIX. TIME FOR AN OVERTURE

THE THING

THE BIZARRE AND CHARMING

RINGFLUENTIAL

TO TOBY!

THREE FAT LADIES. ER,

A QUICK CROSS-SECTION OF THE ROMANTIC TREE IN 1888

THE NAME'S CLASSICAL. NEO-CLASSICAL

THE SLEDGEHAMMER AND THE NUT

1893 IN THE STYLE OF THE

SEAL OF THE CENTURY

1 ACROSS: CONFUSING GAME IN MUSIC FROM 1899 (6)

0

PC WORLD

PARIS AND VIENNA -A TWO-CENTRE BREAK

A 'MUSIC IN FINLAND'?**?*?**?5???? PARAGRAPH