Book description
In this electrifying autobiography, Rik stands naked in front of his
vast legions of fans and disciples and invites them to take communion
with the blood he has spilled for them during his thirty year war on
show business.
He invented alternative comedy with The Young Ones, he brought down the
Thatcher administration with The New Statesman and he changed the face
of global culture with his masterpiece Bottom. Not only was his number
one single Living Doll the saviour of rock 'n' roll but he also rescued
the British film industry with the vast revenues created by his
legendary movie Drop Dead Fred. In 1998, he survived an assassination
attempt and spent five days in a coma before he literally came back from
the dead. Having completed countless phenomenal feature films, TV
series, live extravaganzas and radio voice-overs since then, Rik Mayall
is now poised on the brink of a whole new epoch-shattering revolution.
For the first time ever, Rik reveals in print the deep inner truth
behind his gargantuan ascent to the pinnacle of international light
entertainment - the mental hospitals he has broken out of, the
television executives he has assaulted, the drugs he has definitely not
taken, the charities he has bankrupted, the countless pregnancies he has
engendered, and so much more. Rik Mayall is one of Britain's most
prolific and outrageous comedians and has been creating masterpieces for
the large and small screen for over twenty years. Although his private
and public life may have made the headlines on numerous occasions, Rik
has remained relatively allusive…until now…well, sort of.
Rik Mayall: A Sort of Autobiography does exactly what it says on the
slightly misleading tin, telling us the whole story with a few red
herrings thrown in for a tasty measure.
