Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0283072318 ISBN 13: 9780283072314

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

There's no one quite like Brian Blessed: actor, storyteller, mountaineer and coffin-maker. In this frank, riotous memoir he recalls his childhood in a Yorkshire mining town, his breakthrough on Z-Cars, falling for Katharine Hepburn, raising hell with Peter O'Toole, meeting the love of his life, the actress Hildegard Neil – and punching Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs. ‘No long dramatic pauses this time, Harold; he got one right on the side of the jaw. Wham!â€

About this title

About the Author

Brian Blessed grew up in Goldthorpe, Yorkshire, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His television appearances include Z-Cars, Boy Dominic, I, Claudius, Cold Comfort Farm, The Little World of Don Camillo, Blackadder, My Family and Other Animals, The History of Tom Jones and Peppa Pig. His films include The Trojan Women, Flash Gordon, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, As You Like It, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Brian is also an explorer and mountaineer. He became the oldest man to reach the North Magnetic Pole on foot in 1999 and to reach 28,000 feet of Everest without oxygen. He lives in Surrey with his wife, Hildegard Neil. This is his sixth book.

Review

The beauty about actor, adventurer and Everest climber Brian Blessed's uproarious memoir is that his huge voice leaps out at you from every page. * Belfast Telegraph * He bursts onto the page and then roars through his experiences. It's very funny. * The Stage * The pages of Absolute Pandemonium reverberate with the sound of that inimitable voice and his appetite for life. -- Andy Miller * Sunday Express * Absolute Pandemonium is exactly what you would expect only louder, taller and bigger and more so . . . pleasingly bonkers and bloody entertaining. -- Viv Groskop * Observer * A hoot * Scotsman * Fizzing entertainment * Saga * Stuffed with riotous and hilarious tales . . . never less than entertaining and in some parts, as in his relationship with Peter O'Toole, even quietly revelatory. * Daily Express *

Edition details

• Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0283072318
• ISBN 13: 9780283072314
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400