![]() ![]() “Being onstage is quite easy for me, I feel comfortable up there and it’s lovely to be in front of an audience. I ask him how it’s different to acting, and suggest that songwriting, performing in plays and films are essentially all different ways of being a storyteller. “I never felt I had a particular gift for writing songs, but I suddenly found it easy and enjoyable the form of a song as a way of communicating.” “It's a really fun thing to make a collection of songs and turn them into a record” he tells me. Lewis has kept himself busy since and is gearing up to play the Black Deer Festival and London’s Union Chapel, followed by a tour in September. “I want Daddy to have girlfriends, lots of them, you must all love again, love isn’t possessive, but you know, Damian, try at least to get through the funeral without snogging someone.” Lewis wrote a beautiful eulogy about her, that included McCrory’s wishes for their family’s future. ![]() When we meet, Lewis is wonderfully chatty and totally at ease, perhaps in spite of the heartbreak of the passing of his wife, the inimitable Helen McCrory, in 2021. Lewis’s songs are beautifully written and performed, drawn from a combination of his background of busking around Europe in his early twenties and stories from his life since. Fast forward to today and his acting career couldn’t be more different to his hero, rather than the missteps of The King of Rock and Roll’s film roles, Lewis’s body of work on screen and stage can only be described as illustrious.įollowing his breakthrough as Major Richard Winters in Band of Brothers, he’s shapeshifted through a range of characters, from Homeland’s Nicholas Brody to a delightfully devious Henry VIII in Wolf Hall, bringing an old-school charisma each part, which came full circle with his take on Steve McQueen in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.īut music always competed with acting as Lewis’s artistic calling – he’s also an accomplished footballer, regularly appearing for England in Soccer Aid, where he was famously nutmegged by Zinedine Zidane in 2010 – and now he’s finally ready to release his own songs with his debut album Mission Creep.Īn artist stepping out of their natural milieu doesn’t always work – if you’ve not seen Mick Jagger in the 1970 version of Ned Kelly, don’t worry, you’re not alone, even Jagger didn’t sit through it – but Mission Creep is anything but the work of a dilettante. Recently featured in Mascarade (2022 Cannes Film Festival), The Tender Bar, The Big Leap, Sweet Tooth, 2019 World Series, Annabelle Comes Home, A-X-L, ESPN March Madness, Thoroughbreds, ABC's "Good Morning America", The Hitman's Bodyguard, Showtime's "I'm Dying Up Here", HBO "Girls", Guardians of the Galaxy, Hallmark Channel, The Middle, Scorpion, Better Call Saul, The Blacklist, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Paul, and Bate's Motel.Whilst his friends were exploring the worlds of Goth and Post-Punk, the young Lewis spent hours perfecting the Presley quiff and developing a lifelong love of ‘50s music. King Harvest dissolved in 1976 to work with The Beach Boys, playing tours in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and England, and recording on Beach Boys, Celebration, and Dennis Wilson albums. Released in the U.S., Dancing in the Moonlight became a hit and stayed high on the Billboard charts for 22 weeks. In 1972 King Harvest teamed up with their producers Pierre Jaubert and Jack Robinson to record Dancing in the Moonlight, written by their old friend Sherman Kelly. ![]() Joined by Doc Robinson (keys, vocals) they were booked to open for BB King at the Olympia Theatre in Paris and headline at the Speakeasy in London. The band was asked to score the soundtrack to a film, Le Feu Sacre, which represented France at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, where they performed nightly at the Juan-les-Pins Whiskey-a-Go-Go. The band recorded under various names in Paris and after winning a rock contest as King Harvest, recorded their first album and added French bassist Didier Alexandre to the group. King Harvest, formed in France in 1970, included Eddie Tuleja (guitar), Ron Altbach (keys), Rod Novak (bass, sax) and Wells Kelly (drums). ![]()
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