''The Silent World of Hector Mann'' is a 2010 album by

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, featuring songs inspired by the fictional silent film star Hector Mann from

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's 2002 novel '' The Book of Illusions'', who starred in twelve films before disappearing. Special wrote "Mister Nobody", inspired by the title of one of Mann's films, and sent the novel to eleven songwriters of his acquaintance, asking them each to write a song based on one of the twelve films in a pre-

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style. The album was produced by

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and recorded at his

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studios in

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. It was released both on its own and as part of a box set entitled ''The Stage, A Book And The Silver Screen'', which also includes ''

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'' and the ''

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'', funded via the online crowdsourcing platform

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Duke Special - ''The Stage, a Book and the Silver Screen''
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Track listing

References

External links

Description page on Duke Special's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Silent World Of Hector Mann, The 2010 albums Duke Special albums