3455 x 5150 px | 29,3 x 43,6 cm | 11,5 x 17,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1978
Lieu:
London
Informations supplémentaires:
George Melly, formally he was George Heywood Melly, singer, journalist, columnist, art critic, film critic, and TVpundit. Born 17 August 1926 in Liverpool and died 5 July 2007. He will be mainly remembered as a singer because it formed the entertainment side of his life. He began his stage career by leaping up and grabbing the microphone at a jazz concert. After that he became a singer with Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Trad. Jazz Band in 1948. In the early seventies he made three records with John Chilton's Feetwarmers called "Nuts" and "Son Of Nuts" and "Its George". These three records were largely inspired by his friend Derek Taylor of Warner Bros Records who was an ardent admirer of him and determined on making him a super star. George Melly was truely vaudeville jazz. He went to Stowe public school and there he discovered Rene Magrit and surrealism, he wrote books on the latter and continued to give lectures on the subject into the 90s. He also discovered Bessie Smith the 1920s and 1930s jazz singer and decided 'that this is what I want'. He went on to become one of London's most memorable racconteurs as well as being a fly fisherman of note.
