Little Did You Know: The Confessions of David McGillivray - Hardcover

McGillivray, David

 
9781913051006: Little Did You Know: The Confessions of David McGillivray
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1913051005 ISBN 13: 9781913051006
Verlag: FAB Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Described by Jonathan Ross as “a comedy legend”, Alan Jones as “a horror icon” and Matthew Sweet as “the Truffaut of smut”, David McGillivray has enjoyed a long and colourful career in many areas of lowbrow entertainment. But not even his closest associates, let alone fans of his horror films and comedy plays, could have predicted the extraordinary turn his career took during the final years of the 20th century.McG hosted London’s wildest parties at his home in the sleazy King’s Cross district. They were attended by some of the biggest names of stage, screen, music and fashion. The revelations of what went on under the figurative noses of law enforcement agencies and the literal noses of McG and his high-flying guests are not for the faint-hearted.In this sensational memoir, illustrated with many previously unseen photos, McGillivray journeys six decades, taking us through the cocaine-lined world of London’s media industry, the tragic heights of the AIDS epidemic and the sinful celluloid backstreets of Soho. It’s a colourful picaresque account of the capital from every angle.The confessions of this outrageously funny man may amaze and amuse, scandalise or shock you. And you may never look back on Millennium Night in quite the same light again... Little Did You Know is disgraceful, indefensible... and utterly unforgettable.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

Auszug. © Genehmigter Nachdruck. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

If I had watched myself growing up, I would have been in no doubt how I was going to turn out. According to my mother, I could read and write before I went to school. Some of my earliest memories are of the excitement I got from a fantastic story, and the pleasure of stringing words together myself. When my class at Hazelwood Primary School in Palmers Green, north London, was badly behaved, composition was given out as a punishment. But it wasn’t a punishment to me.At the age of four and a half, I was taken to see the film Singin’ in the Rain. I decided afterwards that I didn’t want to be a shopkeeper when I grew up; I wanted to be a film star. But while I was writing to Doris Day and Rosemary Clooney for their autographs, and playing the role of David McGillivray, his life filmed by secret cameras, I maintained the shopkeeper mentality that, presumably, was what Napoleon so despised in the English. I liked everything in nice neat piles, and I counted every penny.Puberty played an unoriginal but none the less impressive joke on my hormones. As one who has spent most of his professional life writing comedy, I can now appreciate it: the boy who wanted Doris Day as his girlfriend was turned, almost overnight, into the teenager who didn’t want a girlfriend at all. As I saw it, this metamorphosis occurred just as every other boy at Winchmore Secondary Modern had been blessed with the desire to spend playtime with his hand down some girl’s knickers. We were all sex mad at fourteen, but I thought I was the only one not getting any sex.It was sexual frustration that sent me into a world of my own. As much time as possible was spent watching other people have sex in cinemas. Before you ask, yes, on the screen and in the auditorium. At school, fuelled by the rebellious behaviour I saw in the ‘X’ certificate films I wasn’t supposed to be watching, I stopped wearing school uniform, and wrote rude things about the teachers in a magazine I edited and duplicated myself.I began taking drugs when I was sixteen.Today I wonder whether anyone else who knew me as a child predicted that I would end up a bossy, anally retentive, gay drug dealer with a penchant for pornography. And then write about it. If anyone knew my destiny, they didn’t tell me. The man who came closest to defining my true character was Mr Phillips, my form teacher when I was eleven. He wrote in my report, ‘David is a complete individualist and is reluctant to conform with the rest of the class.’

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
FAB Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1913051005
ISBN 13 
9781913051006
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
344
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar