Monty's biography - A Walking Stick Full of Bagels

 

He will also cover his National Service in the RAF, where he first became interested in singing, his rise to featured singer with the major big bands of the Fifties and his successful career as a solo artist on stage TV and records. He will of course not neglet his prolific writing career which will include his many hit stage musicals and films and the series of events which lead up to him writing the score of the very first James Bond film DR NO and, of course, the iconic signature tune for all future Bond films, The James Bond Theme.

 

Many anecdotes and aspects of his long writing career will be included as well the successful libel actions he has been forced to fight over the years - culminating in the High Court action against the Sunday Times.

 

Without a doubt, the reader will find him or herself amusingly and touchingly transported into Monty's many varied life. A life that has gone from poverty to success. The reader will experience through a young boy's eyes, the London Blitz. Then as a young man, the learning processes of singing and stagecraft; working with many of the top comedians, actors and directors of the day; putting on major West End and Broadway shows and, of course, writing one of the most succesful film themes of all time and finally, in his Seventies, going though the ordeal of a High Court libel case in the successful defence of that unique piece of music.

 

 

 

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