Milligan's Meaning of Life [electronic resource] : An Autobiography of Sorts
Milligan, Spike2011
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Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies. With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy, leaving a legacy of influence that stretches from Monty Python's Flying Circus to the work of self-confessed acolytes such as Eddie Izzard and Stephen Fry today. Throughout his life, Milligan wrote prolifically - scripts, poetry, fiction, as well as several volumes of memoir, in which he took an entirely idiosyncratic approach to the truth. In this ground-breaking work, Norma Farnes, his long-time manager, companion, counsellor and confidante, gathers together the loose threads, reads between the lines and draws on the full breadth of his writing to present his life in his own words: an autobiography - of sorts. From his childhood in India, through his early career as a jazz musician and sketch-show entertainer, his spells in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Artillery, to that fateful first broadcast of The Goon Show and beyond into the annals of comedy history, this is the autobiography Milligan never wrote.
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Author:
Milligan, Spike, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Books Ltd, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Norma Farnes was born in Yorkshire in 1934. She was Spike Milligan's agent, manager, mother confessor and friend for thirty-six years. Her books include Spike: An Intimate Memoir, The Magical World of Milligan, Memories of Milligan and Box 18: The Unpublished Spike Milligan.
ISBN:
9780670920785
Language:
English
BRN:
2760008
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