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Milligan, Spike

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ISBN 10: 0140149708 ISBN 13: 9780140149708

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

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This volume of Spike Milligan's memoires begins in 1946 when he leaves the army and returns to a drab London to resume his career as a band musician. Eventually after several tours entertaining the troops in Germany, he turns to script writing for radio, then teams up with some other lunatics including Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers who decide to call themselves "The Goons".

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About the Author:

Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic.

He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but has since become famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992.

Synopsis:

In this sequel to his war memoirs Milligan is on Civvy street and a jazz trumpeter in the Bill Hall Trio, playing at the Hackney Empire and a Freak Show in Zurich. It ends with him pursuing a solo career as a comedian and the first ad lib sessions of The Goons, with Bentine, Sellers and Secombe.

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