Diamonds Are Forever: The Don Black Songbook (tv) • 01:00:30 • "Billy was particularly happy. It was John Barry's idea, it was based on Billy Liar ... I remember when it opened, with Michael Crawford, who was wonderful in it, and I remember the next day, it was a huge hit. And the producer, a wonderful Viennese man called Peter Witt, he took us to Burke's[?] restaurant in Bond Street, he took Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, John Barry and me. And he said, "You boys will never be as happy as you are today. You have a hit show in the West End and you are all healthy.""
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