IT Ends with Magic: A Milligan Family Story - Hardcover

Milligan, Spike

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9780718134327: IT Ends with Magic: A Milligan Family Story

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ISBN 10: 071813432X ISBN 13: 9780718134327

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 1990

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It Ends with Magic: A Milligan Family Story

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About the Author:

The legendary and iconic figure, 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 became famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. He was the creator, principal writer and performer of the infamous Goon Show. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992 and Knighthood in 2000. He died in 2002.

Synopsis:

The story is based on the lives of Spike Milligan's own parents and of other members of his family. Set in the late Victorian era and illustrated with photographs from the family albums, it describes their life in India.

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