Trevor Holman
Trevor Holman is English, having been born in Charlton, South East London, where he was both raised and educated. Trevor worked principally in London for many years, firstly as a professional musician, mostly based in central London recording studios, and then after eleven years and feeling he needed a change of direction Trevor joined a top London advertising agency. Liking the industry and working his way up, Trevor finally spent several years as an account director, looking after several blue chip companies in one of London’s most prestigious advertising agencies.
After meeting his future wife Frances, Trevor then moved to Norfolk where he set up his own advertising agency with a long term friend and business partner, and after many years of working in advertising he then reverted back to his first love - music. Trevor and Frances moved to a much larger property within Norfolk where Trevor built his own 16 track hi-tech recording studio. For most of that time Trevor was also serving in various courts as a Justice of the Peace / Magistrate.
In 2003 Trevor and Frances decided to leave the UK and head to the sun, finally deciding to move to the Algarve region of southern Portugal, where Trevor began work building his own 32 track recording studio. The finished studio was officially opened by Sir Cliff Richard nearly six months later.
'Having Trevor Holman as your Record Producer is the equivalent of
being taught how to play tennis by someone who has won Wimbledon'.
Sir Cliff Richard - August 2004.
Two years later Trevor began a fruitful collaboration with an extremely talented lyricist, and over the following six years they wrote in excess of one hundred songs together.
Included on that list are four complete stage musicals:
Churchill - The Musical
As the title suggests, the musical is based around the life of ‘Sir Winston Churchill’. The show, which had a sell-out red carpet world premiere and run in Portugal, plus a West End showcase at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftsbury Avenue, covers the period from Winston’s marriage to Clemmie, right through the Second World War and concludes with his retirement from public life.
Victory - The Musical
The show is based around the lives, loves and conflicts between Admiral Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington and the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The musical also shows how all three of these powerful European leaders were cleverly manipulated by beautiful women. With fantastic, fully orchestrated music, the show starts with the storming of the Bastille and finishes with the London celebrations after Napoleon’s final defeat at the battle of Waterloo.
Capone - The Musical
The show, which is full of incredible dance numbers, includes period Charleston’s, Rag-Times and acrobatic Lindy-Hops, and is based on the short but incredibly turbulent life of America’s most famous gangster during the prohibition era - Al Capone. And lastly;
Blind Faith - The Musical
A sincere, but light hearted musical based on the turbulent life of the Apostle Paul as described in the disciple Luke’s second book ‘The Acts of the Apostles’. The musical shows how Paul changed from being Jesus’s most vehement persecutor, to his most ardent Apostle.
Sadly, Frances, Trevor’s wife of thirty years, died in 2020 from acute myeloid leukaemia, and Trevor has since left the Algarve, and after a short time living in Spain, Trevor has now returned to the UK and he now lives in Worcestershire.
Trevor has a successful writing career concentrating on crime thrillers, political thrillers and ‘faction’ style stand-alone novels. Trevor usually has two or three books ‘on the go’ at any one time and all of his output is available as either a paperback or kindle download from Amazon.co.uk. Most books are now also available as an audiobook to download via Audible, and all read and character voiced by the excellent John Guest.
Trevor is currently working on the tenth book in the series of novels known as ‘The Algarve Crime Thrillers’ plus several one off books and novels such as his very successful alternative version of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination entitled ‘The JFK Report’, the political thrillers ‘Whatever it Takes’ and ‘The AAU’, plus his very popular Second World War novel ‘The Fourth Richest Man in the World.’
You can read more about all of Trevor’s books, novels and musicals by clicking on the relevant links at the top of the page. Enjoy!
