I wanted to write some songs for a boy band, just to prove I could.This is one of them and though I've never found a boy band to release it maybe it'll happen some day

Reach Up (Free Download)

 This song is in fact based on a true story where a friend of mine approached  a girl (now his wife) at a railway station. This song describes just what happened

Just One Chance in a Lifetime (Free Download)

I'll be Waiting Here (Free Download)

I Just Can't Say Goodbye (Free Download)

Not a  sympathy song for the colour blind, "The Rainbow is Just a Shade of Grey", is about a girl, whose world has lost all its colour since her boyfriend has gone away. Jazz blues becones jazz greys.

The Rainbow Is Just A Shade of Grey (Free Download)

Have you ever suffered from music going round and around in your head so you can't sleep. It seems to be affecting my daughter Fiona in another Ian Rae jazz song

The Music Goes Round and Around (Free Download)

This song describes the problems of growing old - but I can't remember what I was going to say about it

Nobody Wants You When You're Old (Free Download)

I Hate Musicals is the work of Ian Rae, a professional musician based in London. Over the years Ian has written hundreds of songs and instrumentals, which have been used in video, radio, theatre and television, as well as four musicals, The Amazing Adventures of Alice, Olympus the Musical,http://www.OlympustheMusical.co.uk, I Hate Musicals, http://www.IHateMusicals.co.uk, which have all been staged in London, and The Big Deal which is planned for production in late November 2013.