![]() ![]() But most of the coherent musicians that were there that night-and I know most of them by name-were in agreement. I wondered at first whether it was because I’m no longer on the scene. I can only put one appendage to it-it’s crap. Miles Davis, who I love-I went to see him at Ronnie Scott’s. I find music at the moment very disturbing. Bill Hall died from consumption Johnny Mulgrove, who used to play bass with the Ambrose Octet before the war, he died-also from consumption. The trio I worked with was the Bill Hall Trio-which became Hall, Norman and Ladd eventually. Someone can listen with you, but that’s not quite sharing. I am completely and utterly hooked on music. It’s something that I am hooked on forever. It gives a tranquillity such as no other medium can give you. But music has been my unending and constant love. one thing led to another and I became what I am. When my lip went-it was during the war-I went back on to guitar and became a member of a trio. What stopped me becoming a musician was that my lip went. I happen to know from the old days how involved you’ve been with music. In Tony Brown’s 1970 interview with him, Spike Milligan gives his forthright views on the current state of jazz and explains his own personal involvement with and commitment to the music. So far as the importance of the musician is concerned, just try to visualise a world with music, but with no musicians.’ It can make you cry and feel better or sadder. Milligan made no secret of his depressive personality and declared: ‘Music is a great soporific for people who are mentally or emotionally disturbed. In a preface he wrote for Jazz Now (1976), a guide to jazz in Britain, he declared his ‘complete obsession with jazz music’.Ī familiar presence in the audience at Ronnie Scott’s Club – for many years almost a second home for him – he consistently supported the music in Britain, using his celebrity status to raise its public profile when he could. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Milligan performed as an amateur jazz vocalist, guitarist, and trumpeter and retained a deep love of jazz throughout his life. He went on to become a familiar presence on radio and television and the writer of many quirkily humorous autobiographical and other books as well as comic verse, much of it written for children. In Britain he gained initial fame as co-creator, main writer and key cast member of the legendary radio comedy programme The Goon Show. Comedian, actor, writer, poet and playwright Terence Alan ‘Spike’ Milligan was born in Ahmednagar and spent his childhood in India and Burma before moving to live and work in the UK. ![]()
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