Milligan's Meaning of Life by Spike Milligan

Author:Spike Milligan [Milligan, Spike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780670920785
Published: 2011-08-29T23:00:00+00:00

Money can’t buy you friends,

but it does get you

a better class of enemy.

– from ‘Spike on Spike’, Memories of Milligan

from Peace Work

During the week Secombe and I hang around Alan’s Club and go to news theatres to see cartoons – we see the newsreel of a shark, its mouth held open. When it’s dropped it looks like an idiot. We went into hysterics and stayed to see it round a second and third time.

We are the hit of the bill – Harry Foster and Leslie MacDonnell see us second house Saturday. ‘We’re very pleased, boys, we’re managing to up your money to £100 a week.’

I phone my father at work and tell him. ‘I’ll come home right away,’ he said.

I rode all the way to 3 Leathwell Road and told my mother, I stayed the night and slept in the room where the trains shunted. I still let jazz music run through my head – always had, always will. I turned on my little green Bakelite radio, it’s Billy Ternent and his tinkly-poo band – no jazz, but what the hell, this is Deptford not Birdland.

Dizzy live at 3 Leathwell! Wow! Sing Dizzy, blues.

Hey there Dizzy playing at Leathwell Road!

Hey there Dizzy playing at Leathwell Road!

You play that music

A knighthood will be bestowed … oh, yeah!

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