Ian Dury and performed the theme song "Profoundly in Love with Pandora" for the television series "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾" (1985), based on the book of the same name by Sue Townsend, as well as its follow-up, "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole" (1987). Dury turned down an offer from Andrew Lloyd Webber to write the libretto for "Cats" (from which Richard Stilgoe reportedly earned millions). The reason, said Dury, "I can't stand his music." When AIDS first came to prominence in the mid-1980s, Dury was among celebrities who appeared on UK television to promote safe sex, demonstrating
Diary Adrian Mole diaries from the perspective of the then-Prime Minister John Major. Another famous example of fictional diaries as prose is Bram Stoker's "Dracula". A modern example includes the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series where each book of the series is written in a first-person view of the main character, as if the book were an actual diary. Other examples are the "Bert Diaries" and the cellphone diaries in the Japanese manga and anime television series "Future Diary". Diary A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened