I am delighted to see that Jonathan King's autobiography 65 My Life So Far hit No1 on the Amazon Kindle pop culture chart. This is amazing given the near-universal attempt to edit our tastes by our nation's media by ignoring the intriguing tome. Thanks to Madame Arcati's review and that of Roger Lewis in The Lady, however, and a little PR by the author himself, and... well, success!
You don't have to be signed up to the JK Fan Club to appreciate his priceless anecdotes about bisexual John Lennon and sooo many other stars he worked and (well) hung out with. Despite the BBC's best efforts to delete him from public record there's no denying his huge contribution to pop culture, for better or worse.
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A victory for common sense! When you think that hardened thugs get a wagging finger for mugging old ladies while this poor man has been hounded near to death for simply stroking lads who were longing to be touched! Reggie and I often saw this form of affection in Malaya and it worked wonders on alienated youths!
Did I imagine that Mr King had appealed to the European court against his convictions. I do wish journalists, or at least appellants, would keep us unwashed apprised.
Yes Rumpy; the appeal is still ongoing, believe it or not - the first response was "it's doesn't matter when - it's WHETHER that matters"... in a case which depends entirely on one minute difference between legality and illegality. The battle continues...
I'm surprised you didn't add that JK's book is self-published. There can't be many such books that get to Number 1.
Being self-published it is quite an achievement and it really should be a story amongst publishing circles or at least get a mention in the 'better' newspapers but as usual will be ignored in the weird convention at present that certain types of ex-prisoners (not murderers) are person non grata.
I had dinner with Stephen Fry last night and, upon boasting about my achievement, had to suffer his numerous No1 positions in every known chart in the Universe. Oh dear. But he is a lovely person. We then had a very loud disagreement about the value of language and the abilities of different species - as we left I apologised to the other Gavroche diners and a lady said, with a huge smile - "Absolutely brilliant"!
You do realise that Stephen Fry is persona non grata in Arcatiland! However, I shall make an exception and allow the tale.
Other goss welcome.
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