Last Chorus
Last Chorus: An Autobiographical Medley Humphrey Lyttelton,
Publisher: JR Books Ltd
ISBN: 1906217181
Edition: Hardcover; 2008-10
Summary:
A feast for all his many fans and admirers, this is the great
Humphrey Lyttelton's last book, a sparkling autobiographical
kaleidoscope of memories, anecdotes, and entertaining stories from
his colourful life, from his childhood as the son of a famous Eton
Housemaster, through to his role as the irrepressible chairman of I'm
Sorry I Haven't a Clue. A Renaissance man - musician, writer,
cartoonist, calligrapher and broadcaster - Humph was descended from a
long line of land-owning, political, literary, clerical, scholastic
and literary forebears. One of his more notorious relatives was
executed for his part in the Gun Powder Plot! Last Chorus draws on
some of Humph's long-lost autobiographical writings, as well a wealth
of other material, including his never-before-seen private diaries,
plus cartoons. Whether sneaking off when a child to buy his first
trumpet, or wading ashore in Italy during World War II with a rifle
in one hand and a trumpet in the other, or playing alongside such
jazz greats as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Humph was very
much his own man, and he comes vividly to life in this engaging and
witty self-portrait. Every Monday night from 1967 until 2008,
Humphrey Lyttelton wrote and presented BBC's The Best of Jazz, and he
was, famously, Chairman of the anarchic, award-winning radio
programme, I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue. He wrote nine books, and
composed over two hundred tunes, and has Honorary Doctorates at the
universities of Warwick, Loughborough, Durham, Keele, Hertford and de
Montfort.
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