Eddie money nothing to lose tv#

He recalls playing a cover of Just What I Needed by the Cars at a school assembly in front of 250 fellow pupils, accompanied for the entire performance by the loud, derisive laughter of a close friend. Lewis grew up in St John’s Wood, north London, before being sent to boarding school in East Sussex from the age of eight, then on to Eton, where he learned classical guitar and formed his first, short-lived band, the No Names. That might sound like a modest claim for a man whose father was an insurance broker at Lloyd’s of London and whose maternal ancestors include a Lord Mayor and a royal doctor. “If I can claim to be anything,” he says, “it’s a busker.” Lewis has been performing music his whole life, from choirs, to bands, to strumming for money on the streets. There is a real authorship to it that I’m enjoying.” So I should be at my most vulnerable.” And yet, he adds, “I don’t feel exposed, weirdly. This album is really all my doing: I wrote the songs, I’m performing them.

“In a play, you’re one of a group, so if it gets a hatchet job, everybody’s necks are on the block. He compares his current state of mild anxiety to being “at the National Theatre on press night, critics sharpening their quills in the corner” – but recognises there is one profound difference. “I said to everyone involved, ‘I am doing this for me, for fun, so let’s try and have some.’ ” Lewis self-financed the recording, but subsequently signed to major label Decca, a division of Universal Music. Recorded with a band drawn from Britain’s jazz scene (though by no means a jazz album) it is romantic, offbeat, witty, wise, very touching and unarguably accomplished. Released two years after Lewis’s wife, actress Helen McCrory, died of breast cancer, Mission Creep is a rootsy, bluesy, folky, rocky set of songs about love and life, in which his soulful high tenor voice flows with ease through a textured web of instrumentation. It’s a bit like standing up on top of the parapet going, ‘Right, take your shots, everyone throw s- at me!’ ” “I’m fully aware of how dangerous it is for me, tiptoeing into another area of the arts. “We’re notoriously bad at changing lanes in this country,” he says.

Eddie money nothing to lose tv#

The 52-year-old star of hit TV dramas from Band of Brothers to Billions, via Homeland and Wolf Hall, is anticipating the reaction to his boldest career move to date: on Friday, Lewis will release a debut album of his own songs.

“Why doesn’t he stick to acting?!” says Damian Lewis, in a wry pantomime of outrage.