George Melly
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Alan George Heywood Melly (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for The Observer and lectured on art history, with an emphasis on surrealism.
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Bibliography
- Owning Up (autobiography, trad-boom jazz career, 1965)
- Revolt into Style; Pop Arts in Britain (1971)
- Rum, Bum and Concertina (autobiography, navy, 1977)
- A Tribe of One: Great Naive and Primitive Painters of the British Isles (1981)
- Great Lovers (1981, text only—art and research by Walter Dorin)
- Scouse Mouse (autobiography, childhood, 1984)
- It's All Writ Out for You: Life and Work of Scottie Wilson (1986)
- Paris and the Surrealists (1991)
- Don't Tell Sybil: Intimate Memoir of E. L. T. Mesens (1997)
- Hooked! Fishing Memories (2000)
- Slowing Down (memoir, 2005)
- Take A Girl Like Me (biography by his wife, Diana Melly, 2005)
- Swans Reflecting Elephants: A Biography of Edward James (1982)
- Hot Jazz, Warm Feet (autobiography of long-time colleague John Chilton, with chapters devoted to Melly, 2007)
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