Owning Up The Trilogy
Owning Up The Trilogy by George Melly is a comprehensive collection published by Penguin Adult on July 27, 2006, featuring 608 pages in English. This single volume brings together three notable memoirs: Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina, and Owning Up, each accompanied by a new introduction from the author. The memoirs chronicle Melly’s experiences from his childhood in a middle-class household in Liverpool to his unconventional National Service and eventual immersion in London’s vibrant jazz scene.
Readers will find a blend of humor and poignant reflections as Melly recounts his journey through various phases of life. Scouse Mouse offers insights into his formative years, while Rum, Bum & Concertina captures his time in the navy, highlighting his self-education and artistic pursuits. In Owning Up, Melly vividly describes the eclectic world of jazz, filled with a diverse cast of characters and experiences. This edition provides a rich exploration of biography, music, and personal memoirs, making it a significant addition to the literature on cultural and regional narratives.
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This single volume includes three famous memoirs – Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the author’s 1930s childhood in a middle-class Liverpudlian household. Rum, Bum & Concertina, the naval equivalent of wine, women and song, describes Melly’s National Service as one of the most unlikely naval ratings ever. He becomes an anarchist and connoisseur of Surrealist Art while self-educating himself on some of the wilder shores of love. Once demobbed, Melly comes to London to work in an art gallery, and in Owning Up he describes how he slipped into the world of the jazz revival, revelling in an endless round of pubs, clubs, seedy guest-houses and transport caffs while surrounded by a mad array of musicians, tarts, drunks and arch-eccentrics.
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