Product Description

This volume of Spike Milligan's memoires begins in 1946 when he leaves the army and returns to a drab London to resume his career as a band musician. Eventually after several tours entertaining the troops in Germany, he turns to script writing for radio, then teams up with some other lunatics including Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers who decide to call themselves "The Goons".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9877 in Books
• Published on: 1992-11-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

About the Author
Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but has since become famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992.

Customer Reviews

More Milligan Mirth
Spike is back..and this book is every bit as funny as his war memoires.
His humour shines through in every page, and with Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers making regular appearences, its nicely set up to provide you with a great read..just dont take it and buses, trains etc as your laughing may not go down too well with your fellow passengers.
Read-enjoy!

Spike climbs the greasy pole of fame and fortune
Spike now finds himself demobbed and back in Blighty. What now? Britain is still recovering from the war and jobs are either scarce or poorly paid (not that Peter Sellers has noticed) and Spike suffers his share of these from some sparse digs in London. Still, that doesn't stop him having fun and wittily noting the absurd and the amusing people and events around him. He takes his talents on the road with the Reg Hall Trio (such a hit in Italy) and other acts visiting, among other places, Scotland, Ireland, Berlin. But he's still broke... until a friend enlists his aid to write for radio (there's a sample at the end).

not so hot
As a lover of Spike's war memoirs, I found this last instalment a little dull. This reads more like a travelogue " went here did this" and lacks the humour of the earlier books.