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'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
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British Library Melly, George; 1851. 2 vol.; 12 . 10095.c.22.
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