Owning-Up

Surrealist and jazzman George Melly’s uncompromising, witty autobiography. He also wrote two other memoirs of his earlier experiences of childhood and the navy: "Scouse Mouse" and "Rum, Bum and Concertina" and the trilogy is now a Penguin Classic.

His latest biography, about his approaching 80th birthday - Slowing Down - is also published by Penguin.

1970 first Penguin paperback edition. Cover by Trog, aka clarinettist Wally Fawkes with whom George did the Flook strip in the Daily Mail newspaper. The same sketch inside on the frontispiece adds a CND badge on George's lapel.