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".
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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.
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Indeed, we won the war, but I lost five precious years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bill Hall, Wretch Hall, Derek Roy, Reg O'List, Leathwell Road, Linden Gardens, Miss Trenchard, Major Leslie, Jimmy Grafton, Spike Milligan, Sergeant Page, Eddy Molloy, Harry Secombe, Poppa Rocca, Ann Lenner Trio, Jack Jordan, Peter Sellers, Val Parnell, Billy Dunlop, Byron Cutler, Grafton Arms, Johnny Mulgrew, Sweet Afton, Villa Jean, Bing Crosby New!
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Indeed, we won the war, but I lost five precious years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bill Hall, Wretch Hall, Derek Roy, Reg O'List, Leathwell Road, Linden Gardens, Miss Trenchard, Major Leslie, Jimmy Grafton, Spike Milligan, Sergeant Page, Eddy Molloy, Harry Secombe, Poppa Rocca, Ann Lenner Trio, Jack Jordan, Peter Sellers, Val Parnell, Billy Dunlop, Byron Cutler, Grafton Arms, Johnny Mulgrew, Sweet Afton, Villa Jean, Bing Crosby New!
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