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Owning-Up by George Melly 1974


Title: Owning-Up
Author: George Melly
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 1974
Format: Softcover
Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear and tanned pages.

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Reader's note

An orange 1974 edition of Owning-Up by George Melly. This is the autobiography of a jazz-band singer, balloonist of Flook and film critic of the Observer. 'I have been delighted to learn how he met the fifties; faced, with delighted courage, the challenge of heterosexuality; devoted himself to Surrealism and Trad; and toured England as a vocalist with the Mick Mulligan band, singing with the raucous charm of an old negress, so easily attained by those educated at Stowe. In the days of Humphrey Lyttelton and Chris Barber jazz had not altogether surrendered to the professionals. Jazz clubs were temples of New Orleans and warm sex and cold coffee... The book is a constant pleasure to read, and has a great feeling of relish' - John Mortimer in the New Statesman.