George Melly

...Wild about My Old Trombone, which Ford sang with a degree of innuendo to match that of his contemporary, the Liverpudlian jazz singer George Melly. By 1963 Ford was a regular guest on upwards of half a dozen programmes each week on the Light...

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Her passion for the Addicks, as the club is known, was matched only by her love of jazz: she knew various famous jazz musicians, including George Melly, Humphrey Lyttleton, Memphis Slim, Monty Sunshine, Chris Barber, Barry Guy and George...

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...the uniforms were 'so much nicer'. As he related in his autobiography, Rum, Bum and Concertina, he was crestfallen to discover that he would not be sent to a ship and was thus denied the "bell-bottom" uniform he desired. Instead he...

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...I have read about her suggests the sort of woman I would like very much. She's bohemian, funny, a great admirer of both Max Wall and George Melly, two of my personal heroes. Like David Hockney, she is also a passionate champion of smokers'...

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...question over making a film. Pop music meant teenagers, which meant fads, which meant the clock was running on the band's fame. The jazzman George Melly, who was writing about pop in the UK press at this time, remembered being convinced...

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Yes he did, and was quietly led off to become Chairman of the Midland Bank as a suitable reward for going mad. Did Judge Argyle really ask George Melly to explain "cunnilinctus" in the trial of the journalists bringing out the now rather...

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Laure was an autodidact on clarinet. He put together his own band in 1947; George Melly debuted in this ensemble in 1948. He played with Mike Daniels in 1949-50 and led the Cy Laurie Four in 1950, with Fred Hunt and Les Jowett. He ran his...

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...will be me. " She then ordered: "Come here and give me a hug and another cigarette. " George's longtime lover, Squeaky, and I visited him three weeks before he popped it - or, to use his preferred phrase, "Left the building". He rolled...

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...of the charity For Dementia. According to his wife, Melly was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2005 for which he refused all treatment. Melly, who began his career in the Navy, was also a lecturer on art history as well as a film and...

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...suits, louder ties and the image he cultivated of a hard-drinking throwback to the jazz age. After his navy service in World War II, Melly relished the life of a peripatetic musician. "Hard drinking and squalid digs, but absolutely no...

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