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Featuring a host of unpublished interviews, this is the first book to explore the greatest year in Hollywood's history - 1971

This is the first book detailing the history of the golden age of the British sitcom, the 1970s, through the voices of those who created it

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A definitive account of how Evita, Cats, Starlight Express, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Chess, and Miss Saigon changed the business of musical theater across the world

This lively, funny, moving history of a movie studio and the people who made it feels uncannily like ... an Ealing comedy." Martin Scorsese A behind-the-scenes account of life at Ealing Studios - one of the great cinematic success stories of post-war Britain, and a byword for a particular strain of comic film-making that continues to inspire imitators over half a century on. This is the only full narrative history of Ealing, focusing on its ou...

The first biography of the legendary producers of the James Bond series, Harry Saltzman and Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli

This is the first book detailing the history of the golden age of the British sitcom, the 1970s, through the voices of those who created it

For most people in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, Radio 1 provided the soundtrack to their lives. Commanding up to 24 million listeners a week, it was the most popular radio station in the world. An iconic institution and one of the UK's most famous brands, its history and socio-cultural impact is explored in full here for the first time. Robert Sellers draws on archive material and first-hand interviews with DJs and key personnel to capture ...

But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop I'd like to think I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.' Oliver ReedThis is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked - or staggered - off a film set into a pub.

The first biography of the legendary producers of the James Bond series, Harry Saltzman and Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli

In 1962,  at the age of seventeen, Cleveland Sellers joined the Nonviolent Action Group, an affiliate of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Sellers had grown up in Denmark, South Carolina, in a comfortable, middle-class home, now, working with SNCC, his eyes were opened to the full depth of the struggle against white oppression. Soon Sellers, along with Stokely Carmichael, had become a top official in the organization, and p...

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It all started when Beatle George Harrison stepped in to fund Life of Brian when Monty Python's original backers pulled out. His company, HandMade films, went on to make some of the best British films of the 80s (Withnail and I, and Mona Lisa among them), but then things started to go wrong. This title tells the insiders' story of what happened.

Peter O'Toole was supremely talented, a unique leading man and one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. Described by his friend Richard Burton as 'the most original actor to come out of Britain since the war', O'Toole was also unpredictable, with a dangerous edge he brought to his roles and to his real life. With the help of exclusive interviews with colleagues and close friends, Peter O'Toole: The Definitive Biography paints the ...

Hellraisers tells the story of four of the greatest boozers of all time: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed. Robert Sellers and Jake cleverly weave the four biographies seamlessly into one fast-paced adventure of drunken binges, orgies, parties and fun. Told through the eyes of Martin, a wannabe Hellraiser, the story begins in a typical London pub at Christmas time. One by one, each of the four Hellraisers take this ...

Robert Sellers is the author of the bestselling Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed, Hollywood Hellraisers and An A-Z of Hellraisers. He has also written biographies on Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, a history of the George Harrison/Monty Python film company HandMade, and the controversial Battle for Bond, which for a ti...

‘I’m simply the result of the chemicals that were in my mother’s ovaries and my father’s balls. I’m a loose cannon. That’s what I am, and I can’t help it.’Oliver Reed is remembered by many as a volatile, hard living talent who was lost too soon. A man whose off-screen antics often overshadowed those on-screen. The persona he created was so charismatic that often he felt obliged to act it out in the public arena, perpetuating the hellraiser myt...

This quirky and anecdote-driven A-Z compendium celebrates the most outrageous, depraved, tortured and eccentric hellraisers the world has ever seen.

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This book documents the growth of urban governance and analyses its causes and consequences.