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'In these memoirs I bounce all about British TV with such success
that I wind up in radio. I will also be filling a few holes that I
left in the previous decades. For example, I managed to forget in
Book One that I had been shot. Twice.' Danny Baker's first volume
of autobiography, Going to Sea in a Sieve, was a Sunday Times
bestseller, acclaimed for its non-stop humour and anecdotal
flourish. It told the exploits of Danny's extraordinary childhood
and the wild living of his teenage years. Now, he is twenty-five
and it is 1982, and he embarks on an accidental and anxiety-induced
career in television - going off alarming. With rollicking good
stories from what he describes as 'a frankly crackpot life', Danny
continues this stupendous chronicle with irrepressible verve and
hilarity. Dozens of TV shows - many of them lousy - give up their
backstage stories, and Danny's extraordinary family, particularly
his father Spud, react to the ride throughout. Game shows, talk
shows, adverts and TFI Friday are but a few of the unplanned
pitstops along the way. Not forgetting the tale of Twizzle: the Dog
Who Hanged Himself, Died, Then Came Back to Life Again...Clearly,
this will be no ordinary showbusiness-stroll down memory lane.
The first hilarious volume of comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ
and screenwriter Danny Baker's memoir, and now the inspiration for
the major BBC series CRADLE TO GRAVE, starring Peter Kay. 'And what
was our life like in this noisy, dangerous and polluted industrial
pock-mark wedged into one of the capital's toughest neighbourhoods?
It was, of course, utterly magnificent and I'd give anything to
climb inside it again for just one day.' In the first volume of his
memoirs, Danny Baker brings his early years to life as only he
knows how. With his trademark humour and eye for a killer anecdote,
he takes us all the way from the council house in south-east London
that he shared with his mum Betty and dad 'Spud' (played by Peter
Kay) to the music-biz excesses of Los Angeles, where he famously
interviewed Michael Jackson for the NME. Laugh-out-loud funny, it
is also an affectionate but unsentimental hymn to a bygone era.
Comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker
charts his 30 years in showbiz Danny Baker was born in Deptford,
South East London in June 1957, and from an early age was involved
in magazine journalism, with the founding of fanzine Sniffin' Glue,
alongside friend Mark Perry. From there he moved to documentary
series for LWT and over the years worked on a variety of quiz shows
(Win, Lose or Draw, Pets Win Prizes, TV Heroes), as well two
television commercials which made him a household name - Daz and
Mars Bars. This book charts Danny's showbiz career, the highs and
lows, and everything in between, including the accusation that he
killed Bob Marley ...
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Fractured (Paperback)
Danny Baker; Edited by A. Razor, Iris Berry
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Discovery Miles 3 460
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Grit your teeth world; Danny Baker is going in dry! 'Death In The
Key Of Life' is like a long sustained Coltrane saxophone solo. It
caresses, it brutalises, it honks and bleats (in)articulately, it
pleads for meaning, it spits on the world. Often all on the same
page. Many have tried to give expression to the inexpressible -
Joyce, Artaud, Beckett. Danny Baker is the first person who might
just have pulled it off.
In this book my father dies. I almost die.*** My showbiz career
winds down. And yet everyone keeps telling me it's the funniest
book I've ever written. If I'd known that's what the public wanted,
I'd have cancelled Pets Win Prizes and just got sick sooner. Along
the way this time we encounter, among others, David Bowie, Kanye
West (I think), John Cleese, Peter O'Toole, and have several
adventures in the Fourth Dimension. Oh, and I can reveal the Man
With The Foulest Mouth In All Show Business. Plus assorted
high-kicking hoopla and a whole lot of rather stark stuff about
what it's like to be told you could be On The Way Out. *** (SPOILER
ALERT: I don't actually die.)
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