Book description
An A-Z of Hellraisers is the last word on inebriated
misbehaviour, and the miscreant mob in this whopper of a book
constitute the most amazing grouping to see print: from Alexander the
Great, whose drunken revelries once ended with the destruction of an
entire city; to W. C. Fields, who passed critical judgement on a brass
band by urinating over them from a hotel balcony; Dylan Thomas, who
drove a sports car onto Charlie Chaplin's private tennis court; to Led
Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, suffocating on his own vomit after
consuming forty measures of vodka - what a night out that was!
This hilarious volume makes for an ideal bedside companion or pub
reading fodder, as it scrutinises and salutes these glorious
individuals, from Winston Churchill to Keith Moon, George Best to
Ernest Hemingway, Wild Bill Hickok to Sam Peckinpah, Ozzy Osbourne to
Errol Flynn. Just thank God we didn't have to live next door to any of them.
Robert Sellers is the author of the bestselling
Hellraisers: The
Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter
O'Toole and Oliver Reed
and
Hollywood Hellraisers
. He has also written biographies on Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford and Sean
Connery,
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
, a history of the George Harrison/Monty Python film company HandMade,
and the controversial
Battle for Bond
, which for a time was banned by the family of Ian Fleming
.
He was a regular contributor to
Empire, Total Film
,
Independent, SFX
and
Cinema Retro
and
has contributed to a number of television documentaries, including
Channel 4's
The 100 Best Family Films
.
