'The first serious attempt to analyse pop culture by someone who was part of it.' Julian Mitchell, "Guardian"

The redoubtable GeorgeMelly (1926-2007): flamboyant jazz singer, sexually ambiguous raconteur, prodigiously gifted critic. In the early sixties, at the birth of what we now recognise as the pop revolution, Mellybegan work as a broadsheet journalist, commenting upon this new cultural phenomenon.Revoltinto Style (1970) is his first-hand account of those turbulent and exciting years when all things creative - whether music, fashion, film, art or literature - were changed utterly.

Central to the book are The Beatles - the epitome of the swinging sixties - who charted the decade's changes and about whose significance the Liverpudlian Melly had a special feel and insight. Alongside the Fab Four is a large cast of movers and shakers, of wannabes and taste-makers, all dissected by Melly's surgical mind.

An entertainment on marriage by George Melly, Alan Ayckbourn, James Saunders, Harold Pinter, Alun Owen, Fay Weldon, David Campton, Lyndon Brook and John Bowen.1 woman, 1 man or flexible casting

This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class Liverpudlian household. Rum, Bum & Concertina, the naval equivalent of wine, women and song, describes Melly's National Service as one of the most unlikely naval ratings ever. He becomes an anarchist and connoisseur of Surrealist Art while self-educating himself on some of the wilder shores of love. Once demobbed, Melly comes to London to work in an art gallery, and in Owning Up he describes how he slipped into the world of the jazz revival, revelling in an endless round of pubs, clubs, seedy guest-houses and transport caffs while surrounded by a mad array of musicians, tarts, drunks and arch-eccentrics.

Title: Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Melly, George; 1851. 2 vol.; 12 . 10095.c.22.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. OF STATESMEN. LORD PALMERSTON. ONLY met Lord Palmerston once or twice. He sent for me in 1851 to discuss the Suez Canal, which I had just seen in partial progress. I remember he was very furious and positive about the Canal, and said he was advised by the best engineers that it was impracticable, for as fast as you took out one basket of sand, three would be blown in. " It cannot, it will not, and it shall not be built," said he; " and if it ever is we shall have to annex Egypt, and that will involve a war with France." When it was a question of appraising the powers of any other country to do anything, Lord Palmerston, being an Englishman, was at fault. When the duties and interests of England was the question, Lord Palmerston never made a mistake. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. I saw Lord Russell on several occasions, and I do not agree with the doggrel bard who wrote " Yet whoe'er is no lickspittle, Still says Little John is little." Earl Russell was a very great man, and bore his few inches with much dignity. He was also a thorough Liberal, in advance of the light of those days. But he made a terrible mess of the " Alabama" matter, and deliberately allowed that pirate to escape to her terrible work of depredation, which cost us some years afterwards three millions of money. Never did a Government sin with their eyes so wide open. They were perfectly informed, and William Rathbone and I predicted, in our various private interviews with Earl Russell, exactly what took place afterwards. But here again Society, under London influences of club and coterie, betrayed the nation. Earl Russell hesitated to quarrel with the Southern States because Pall Mall and St. James Street, " mostly fools," as Sydney Smith once said, were confident that the South was going to...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. OF STATESMEN. LORD PALMERSTON. ONLY met Lord Palmerston once or twice. He sent for me in 1851 to discuss the Suez Canal, which I had just seen in partial progress. I remember he was very furious and positive about the Canal, and said he was advised by the best engineers that it was impracticable, for as fast as you took out one basket of sand, three would be blown in. " It cannot, it will not, and it shall not be built," said he; " and if it ever is we shall have to annex Egypt, and that will involve a war with France." When it was a question of appraising the powers of any other country to do anything, Lord Palmerston, being an Englishman, was at fault. When the duties and interests of England was the question, Lord Palmerston never made a mistake. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. I saw Lord Russell on several occasions, and I do not agree with the doggrel bard who wrote " Yet whoe'er is no lickspittle, Still says Little John is little." Earl Russell was a very great man, and bore his few inches with much dignity. He was also a thorough Liberal, in advance of the light of those days. But he made a terrible mess of the " Alabama" matter, and deliberately allowed that pirate to escape to her terrible work of depredation, which cost us some years afterwards three millions of money. Never did a Government sin with their eyes so wide open. They were perfectly informed, and William Rathbone and I predicted, in our various private interviews with Earl Russell, exactly what took place afterwards. But here again Society, under London influences of club and coterie, betrayed the nation. Earl Russell hesitated to quarrel with the Southern States because Pall Mall and St. James Street, " mostly fools," as Sydney Smith once said, were confident that the South was going to...

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