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All of 99p this one from a local charity shop up the road. Chunky book 700 pages hard backed first edition from 2010 titled " The Singers Singer" the life and times of Matt Monro a biography written by one of Matt's daughters...Michele.signed to bookplate on the front end page.
This is the guy who sung "Born Free" from the hit movie....among other hits.
Matt Monro (1 December 1930 – 7 February 1985) was an English singer who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1960s. Throughout his 30-year career, he filled cabarets, nightclubs, music halls, and stadiums in Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong to Africa,...
Some of my happiest memories of my father are seeing him perform. Day time he was just a regular dad, feet up on the settee watching television, telling me off for wearing too much make-up, telling me to be back by 10.00pm on school disco nights, helping me with my homework and raising eye brows when I brought boys home..But on workdays he came alive, a different persona took over and he took on the role of an idolised pop star. It is interesting to note that he was more revered in all other countries except his birth place and spending up to nine months of every year away was sometimes tough on all of us. But he was in constant demand and in an ever-changing business you went where the work took you.
