Little Did You Know: The Confessions of David McGillivray - Hardcover

McGillivray, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1913051005 ISBN 13: 9781913051006

Publisher: Fab Press Limited, 2019

Synopsis

Described by Jonathan Ross as 'a comedy legend', Alan Jones as 'a horror icon' and Matthew Sweet as 'the Truffaut of smut', David McGillivray has enjoyed a colourful career in many areas of lowbrow entertainment. He is best known as a scriptwriter who has worked in the entertainment media for more than 50 years. But not even his closest associates, let alone fans of his horror films and comedy plays, could have predicted the extraordinary turn his career took during the final years of the 20th century. What is not so well known is that for several years, 'McG' also supplied class A drugs to a select clientele, which included doctors, lawyers, actors, artists and writers, many of them household names. His weekly cocaine parties, held in one of the most heavily policed areas of London, were renowned. He sold drugs 'for fun' and gave most of the money to charity. The revelations of what went on under the figurative noses of law enforcement agencies and the literal noses of McG and his high-flying guests are not for the faint-hearted. This frank, funny and frightening memoir, lavishly illustrated with many previously unseen photos, is an account of McG's exploits delivering illegal substances to some of the most famous addresses in London. It is an expos© not only of the extent of drug use among the professional classes at the end of the 20th century, but also the way in which the lifestyle encouraged a new type of manically energetic entertainment still popular on both radio and television. McG saw it all happen and here he tells the unvarnished truth for the first time. The confessions of this outrageously funny raconteur may amaze and amuse, or distress and disgust, depending on your viewpoint, but they are unlikely to leave you cold. You may never look back on Millennium Night in the same light again. Little Did You Know is disgraceful, indefensible and utterly unforgettable.

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Review:

"McGillivray has contributed more than most to the degeneration of British cinema." - Hampstead & Highgate Express

"A meticulous account of a life so sordid I think each copy should come with a complimentary sanitary wipe... over-sharing as an art-form." - Julian Clary

About the Author:

David McGillivray knew from the age of four that he wanted to get into the movies. He was briefly the UK's youngest film critic, then wrote his first film when he was 23, before moving on to a series of cheap shockers and skin flicks. Later, McG found employment in radio, TV and theatre, becoming Julian Clary's long-serving scriptwriter. Around the year 2000 he put these careers temporarily on hold to dabble in another form of exploitation, but one closely associated with the more secretive side of show business; all is revealed in his book's scandalous pages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fab Press Limited
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1913051005
• ISBN 13: 9781913051006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344