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#1 2010-07-23 04:41:03
- Rip Rig & Panic
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George Melly
I know a lot of people can't stick the old bugger, but his tales of gigging with Mick Mulligan are pretty funny. I first picked up 'Owning Up' as a teenager, and have read it over and over. A middle-class arsehole in many ways, but a genuine lover of the music, no doubt.
#2 2010-07-23 05:28:18
- Harpo
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Re: George Melly
He was allright old George. I love that story about hime meeting Mick Jagger at a party:
George: Looking a bit wrinkly, Mick.
Mick: They're laughter lines, George.
George: Nothing's that funny.
Randy lower-class trifler
#4 2022-07-08 07:23:26
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Re: George Melly
Melly is being name-checked Elsewhere. I sat behind him and a blonde female at a production of Bennett's 'Forty Years On' circa 1984; saw him performing (benefit gig for Amnesty International) a couple of years later. Pure bollocks. Just more or less a put-on, a comedy act. Yet his books remain highly readable on a wet Sunday afternoon if you fancy that post-rationing, pre-skiffle/Tommy Steele vibe.
Apparently JFM claimed to have corn-holed him.
Probably shite.