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Max Champion sings 'The Bishop and the Actress'
The Only surviving recording of Max Champion (excerpt).

Manuscript in Max's own hand. Found in an old farm house near Zonnebeek, Belgium, where Max was almost certainly stationed as a soldier in the First World War.

From The Mouth of Max Some insight into Max's lyrics.

Publicity photo of Max. Probably 1911. Found in the attic of a boarding house in Margate in 2017.

Only known informal snapshot of Max Champion. Date unknown.

The Shades of Night Singalong

Worse Things Happen at Sea

Original theatre poster, 1911. (Private collection)

Rare sheet music cover, published by Franklin, Dean and Harper, London, 1912. Found in Valletta, Malta, in 2014.

Press cutting, 1910

Why Why Why Singalong