PARCEL ARRIVED SAFELY TIED WITH STRING~Michael Crawford

PARCEL ARRIVED SAFELY: TIED WITH STRING

Michael Crawford

His best selling Autobiography

HARDCOVER D/J - Excellent condition

By turns hilarious and desperately sad,this is the refreshingly honest story of the highs and lows of one of Britain's funniest anecdotalists and biggest stars. Now for the first time Michael Crawford, one of Britian's best loved and most internationally successful stars, tells his life story in his own inimitable style. By turns hilarious, revelatory and desperately sad, here is the autobiography of the man whose successes, such as Hello Dolly!, Some Mothers Do Have Them and the Phantom of the Opera, have made him a national institution. The story of the true identity of his father, which is behind the book's tile, leads into an evocative depiction of his tender childhood years. Whilst all the men were away at war, he was surrounded by loving women. For him this was an idyllic wartime childhood, but the return of the men in peacetime signalled darker times to come. Crawfords infectious enjoyment of stage work illumines his account of his early struggles to make a name for himself in the business, and his early failures with girls are lifted by his abiding sense of the absurd. Both in his private life and his work he begins a lifetime's habit of pratfalls that he would later turn to good use in the character of Frank Spence in Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em. His talent for mimicry makes the great personalities in his life come alive on the page, not only the Duickensian characters of his childhood but also many of the people he has worked with, including Benjamin Britten who taught him to sing, John Lennon-with whom he shared a willa - and Oliver Reed, Michael Winner, Barbara Streisand, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied With String, full of fun and laughter, is the autobiography of one of Britian's greatest anecdotists and biggest stars.

 

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