Beyond the Fringe of musical items in the show, using Dudley Moore's music, most famously an arrangement of the Colonel Bogey March which resists Moore's repeated attempts to bring it to an end. The show prefigured the Satire Boom of the 1960s. Without it, there might not have been either "That Was the Week That Was" or "Private Eye", the satirical magazine which originated at the same time, that partially survived due to financial support from Peter Cook, and that served as the model for the later American "Spy Magazine". Cook and Moore formed a comedy team and appeared in the popular television
The Light Princess (Original Cast Recording) had ambitions of bringing "The Light Princess" to American Broadway, but expressed worry that the original National Theatre production might not be commercial enough for the American audience. The Original Cast Recording features 30 original recordings by the cast plus three bonus tracks, including two performed by Amos. An early incarnation of the song "Coronation" appeared on Tori Amos's seasonal album Midwinter Graces in 2009. Then known as "Winter's Carol", much of the song's core melody remains the same as the version that would become "Coronation". In its place as the closing number of "The Light Princess", the lyrics, structure