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Spike Milligan KBE (born Terence Alan Milligan; 16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor of English and Irish parentage. His early life was spent in British India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom.
He claimed his right to Irish citizenship (as a child of an Irish citizen) after the British government declared him stateless following changes resulting from the British Nationality Act 1981.[1] He was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles, and Minnie Bannister characters.
Milligan wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon and his seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall. He is also noted as a popular writer of comical verse; much of his poetry was written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids (1959). After success with the ground-breaking British radio programme, The Goon Show, Milligan translated this success to television with Q5, a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, British India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish father, Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA (1890–1969), who was serving in the British Indian Army. His mother, Florence Mary Winifred Kettleband (1893–1990), was English. He spent his childhood in Poona (India) and later in Rangoon, capital of the then British Burma. He was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, and St Paul's Christian Brothers, de la Salle, Rangoon. He lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, and served in the British Army in the Royal Artillery during World War II.
Milligan married his first wife, June (Marchinie) Marlow, in 1952. They had three children - Laura, Seán and Síle - but divorced in 1960. He had one daughter with his second wife, Patricia Ridgeway (known as Paddy): the actress Jane Milligan (b. 1966). Milligan and Patricia were married in June 1962 with George Martin as best man. The marriage ended with her death from breast cancer in 1978.
In 1975 Milligan fathered a son, James (born June 1976), in an affair with Margaret Maughan. Another child, a daughter Romany, is suspected to have been born at the same time to a Canadian journalist named Roberta Watt. His last wife was Shelagh Sinclair, to whom he was married from 1983 to his death on 27 February 2002. Four of his children collaborated with documentary makers on a new multi-platform programme called I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan (2005), which includes an accompanying website.
In October 2008 an array of Milligan's personal effects was sold at auction by his third wife, Shelagh, who was moving into a smaller home. These included a grand piano salvaged from a demolition and apparently played every morning by Paul McCartney, a neighbour in Rye in East Sussex.
Shelagh Milligan died in June 2011.
As Milligan was not born in the UK, his claim to a British passport was never clear. Milligan himself felt he was entitled to one having served in the army for 6 years, but it was not to be. His passport renewal was refused, primarily because Milligan would not swear an Oath of Allegiance, and his Irish ancestry gave him an escape route from his stateless condition. He became an Irish citizen and remained so until his death.
Even late in life, Milligan's black humour had not deserted him. After the death of Harry Secombe from cancer, he said, "I'm glad he died before me, because I didn't want him to sing at my funeral." A recording of Secombe singing was played at Milligan's memorial service. He also wrote his own obituary, in which he stated repeatedly that he "wrote the Goon show and died".
Milligan died from kidney failure, at the age of 83, on 27 February 2002, at his home in Rye, East Sussex. On the day of his funeral, 8 March 2002, his coffin was carried to St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex and was draped in the Irish tricolour. He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words "I told you I was ill." He was buried at St Thomas's cemetery but the Chichester diocese refused to allow this epitaph. A compromise was reached with the Irish translation, "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite", and, additionally in English, "Love, light, peace".
About author and audiobooks:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Milligan |
Memoirs
Spike Milligan - Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (read by Spike Milligan)
Spike Milligan - "Rommel?" "Gunner Who?" (read by Spike Milligan)
Spike Milligan - Monty: His Part in My Victory (read by Spike Milligan)
Spike Milligan - Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall (read by Spike Milligan)
Spike Milligan - Goodbye Soldier (read by Spike Milligan)
Spike Milligan - Where Have All The Bullets Gone (read by Spike Milligan)
Spike Milligan - Peace Work (read by Spike Milligan)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/77940ccd0a1a46e19f2c500f70d08960/Adolf_Hitler_My_Part_In_His_Downfall.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/281defd3a24688703850d87916014c38/Rommel_Gunner_Who.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/78ea3d3f9524b7517e2450c267169950/Monty_His_Part_In_My_Victory.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/488a311f1b48772889f891fb52ed1492/Mussolini_His_Part_In_My_Downfall.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/405ac0a1ad2b87021f92107a0a943acc/Goodbye_Soldier.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5055d84ff58e2caf98fdee3ce6d705b7/Where_Have_All_The_Bullets_Gone.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/673731db08975f94949d9a6da8cd5c5c/Peace_Work.rar.html |
Novels
Spike Milligan - Puckoon (read by Unknown reader)
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http://rapidgator.net/file/7482079fdb25b1636e9e6cf6362c855b/Puckoon.rar.html |
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