New Castle, England 1953

Bernard Delfont:  I would love to have dinner with you...unfortunately, I’m due at the theater in 10 min. One of my other acts...Norman Wisdom? 

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Ollie:  To be honest...I’ve been a little disappointed...and I think it’s because of all of these small theaters we’ve been playing. I don’t know what happened with the larger theaters we’ve been talking about. 

Bernard:  Well they said they were all booked up.

Stan: Yeah by Norman Wisdom 

We’d reached the point, 1980, where Deke had formalised his management of record producer Chris Neil, and together they were looking for new singers to record. At the time, Brian Shepherd was Head of A&R at EMI and Peter Buckleigh head of marketing. One day the phone goes and Brian says: ‘We’re involved with a BBC tv series called The Big Time, about amateurs who want to be professionals. We…

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Stan and Ollie (2018).

When the laughter has to end.

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The problem with any comedy double act is that if illness or death get in the way (think Dustin Gee and Les Dennis; or Morecambe and Wise) the wheels can come off for the other partner. “Stan and Ollie” tells the story of the comic duo starting in 1937 when they reached their peak of global…

Variety Club of Great Britain Luncheon. September 10, 1964

1964

1964

The New Musical Express reveals that Brian Epstein has turned down an offer of £8,000 for the Beatles to play a concert at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City. Also in this edition, the paper speculates that the Beatles talked Brian Epstein out of a ‘big deal’ with Bernard Delfont. And it says that one can ‘discount rumours linking Alma Cogan’s name romantically with Brian Epstein.’