Charlie

I like to write. I used to want to grow up to be a soap opera writer, but the soaps wouldn't have me. Then I tried screenplays. Writing them took forever, and although I even wrote one that was sort of "The Philadelphia Story," "All About Eve" and Pedro Almodovar in a blender, still, nothing. Next I picked back up something I had done when I was a wee lad -- writing lyrics -- and lo and behold, it turned out that that was the kind of writing I was good at. Sure, I recently wrote a series of children's stories that I thought were terribly clever but nobody wanted, but lyrics... that's my thing. Which is odd because I can't sing or play any instrument more complicated than a toaster. Luckily, there are fellas in the world like UK boy band Billiam that can sing, and like the dickens, no less. Here they are, performing a hit-to-be that I co-wrote called "The Beautiful Ones"...