From Billy Fury to YouTube
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491_9781782225881
A unique feature of this book is that Michael suggests titles from his YouTube channel that enable the reader to watch and hear scenes that enhance the stories he tells in an easily readable style. He describes the unusual circumstances that persuaded him to set up the channel with the strange but understandable name Michael notthatone Parkinson.He had already promoted concerts and shows with moderate success when in 2010 he decided to combine recordings of sixties star Billy Fury with choreographed dance and narration, it was a great success so he put the show on at other venues finishing atthe Floral Pavilion, New Brighton which overlooks the Mersey where young Ronald Wycherley had worked on a tugboat before achieving fame as Billy Fury. There were 115 dancers and three narrators in that show and his mother, Jean got a standing ovation as she spoke to the audience and sang an encore of Halfway to Paradise. Michael video recorded what happened and loaded it to YouTube and includes the title so that readers can see it.But that is only 8 of 38 chapters, the others cover an American GI, Saara Aalto, the singer from Finland who sang for him in Leicester Square and the sad story of Jessica George.He walked the whole 184 miles of the Thames Path in small sections over three years and invites readers to look at videos he took along the way. Blackpool Tower ballroom is next with Phil Kelsall playing for dancing before Michael met ‘feel your boobs’ Joanna Forest at Brighton. In his cricket chapter he describes a group of youngsters who wrote a song considered too cheeky for Trent Bridge. He describes the emotional final appearance of Judith Durham and the Seekers at Nottingham before flitting to Scarborough Spa and the music played there. Michael went on Eurostar to Paris Disney with family and decided he liked ‘It’s a small world’ best, of course it is a suggested video title for readers to look at. His biography of Eric Coates includes &lsquo
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