The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch by Graham Sharpe

The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch by Graham Sharpe

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Everyone has heard of Screaming Lord Sutch. In the early 60s he was one of the fathers of rock and roll music in England. Graham Sharpe, who knew Sutch well for nearly 30 years, has now written the first biography of this enigmatic and singular man.

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The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch by Graham Sharpe

Everyone has heard of Screaming Lord Sutch. In the sixties he was one of the fathers of British rock and roll, with a wild pyrotechnic stage act years ahead of people like Alice Cooper. By the eighties he was regularly upstaging prime ministers at general elections in his Monster Raving Loony Party garb of leopardskin coat and top hat. And always he was the Great British Eccentric available for chat shows and publicity stunts. Most recently, his trademark number, 'Jack the Ripper', has been covered by the hippest band of all, the White Stripes. But in 1999 Sutch died by his own hand, approaching sixty lonely and depressed, still grinding the motorways to crummy gigs, his private life in confusion. Graham Sharpe knew him for nearly thirty years, and this first biography is an affecting, sometimes shocking portrait of an enigmatic Zelig-figure who cropped up in everyone's life and eventually found his own stalled in an endless Groundhog Day of superficiality.
Graham Sharpe is Media Relations Manager for the bookmaking organisation William Hill. His other books include The Magnificent Seven (also published by Aurum) and Free the Manchester Utd One. He lives in Pinner, Middlesex.
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ISBN 13 9781854109835
ISBN 10 1854109839
Title The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch
Author Graham Sharpe
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published 2005-04-25
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.