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MELLY, George

How To Create Comics & Manga

Wm. Collins Sons & Co.

Revolt into style: the pop arts in Britain

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Penguin

George Melly is 79 nudging 80. You'll probably think, 'That's not old these days'. And it's true, George is still swinging and singing, fly-fishing, flirting, and for now just playing at senility. But it's not as if he were the Queen Mother. He walks very slowly nowadays. He's losing control over his bladder, and his bowels. He no longer, being quite deaf, enjoys noisy parties. He's been seriously ill once, and not quite well often. And he's constantly being probed and tinkered with at St Mary's Hospital: like an old car in and out of the garage. Sex has walked out on him, but Irish Whiskey, in only slightly diminished quantities, remains a good friend. This remarkably cheerful book is his diary of it all. An extraordinary, darkly funny, frank, and larger-than-life account about how feels to be growing old and irresistibly Slowing Down.

Slowing Down

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Penguin Uk

This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class Liverpudlian household. Rum, Bum & Concertina, the naval equivalent of wine, women and song, describes Melly's National Service as one of the most unlikely naval ratings ever. He becomes an anarchist and connoisseur of Surrealist Art while self-educating himself on some of the wilder shores of love. Once demobbed, Melly comes to London to work in an art gallery, and in Owning Up he describes how he slipped into the world of the jazz revival, revelling in an endless round of pubs, clubs, seedy guest-houses and transport caffs while surrounded by a mad array of musicians, tarts, drunks and arch-eccentrics.

Owning Up

This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class Liverpudlian household. Rum, Bum & Concertina, the naval equivalent of wine, women and song, describes Melly's National Service as one of the most unlikely naval ratings ever. He becomes an anarchist and connoisseur of Surrealist Art while self-educating himself on some of the wilder shores of love. Once demobbed, Melly comes to London to work in an art gallery, and in Owning Up he describes how he slipped into the world of the jazz revival, revelling in an endless round of pubs, clubs, seedy guesthouses and transport caffs while surrounded by a mad array of musicians, tarts, drunks and arch-eccentrics.

Classic Biography Owning Up The Trilogy

Humor & Entertainment

Written in 1970 at the point when the Pop Arts movement, begun in the 1950s and culminating in the 60s, finally lost momentum, this book is a survey of the arts trends of the preceding 20 years. The style is humorous and provocative. George Melly begins by distinguishing between Pop culture - which is seen as a form of protest - from popular culture out of which Pop grew, a more conservative and acquiescent affair. He then examines the various elements of Pop - music, film, TV, radio, theatre and pop literature, drawing comparisons and conclusions about the ways in which the young sought to express themselves through its superstars, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan etc. George Melly' other books include "I Flook", "Tribe of One - Great Naive and Primitive Painters of the British Isles", and three volumes of autobiography.

Revolt into Style: The Pop Arts

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Paintings and commentary explore the world of such famous lovers as Frankie and Johnnie, Tristan and Isolde, Chopin and George Sand, Virginia Woolf and Victoria Sackville-West, and Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas

Great Lovers

Dorin, Walter

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Rum, bum, and concertina

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Its All Writ Out for You the Life

Norton*(ww Norton Co

<p>With 104 duotone illustrations by Michael Woods . 4to pp. 160 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine)</p>

Paris and the Surrealists

Woods, Michael

Thames&Hudson

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