Publisher Description

This quirky and anecdote-driven A-Z compendium celebrates the most outrageous, depraved, tortured and eccentric hellraisers the world has ever seen.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.

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A compendium which celebrates the most outrageous, depraved, tortured and eccentric hellraisers, from Alexander the Great to Dylan Thomas, John Bonham and Errol Flynn. In a handy A-Z format, it's packed with funny anecdotes.

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'Hair-raising anecdotes and priceless one-liners' Daily Mail Meet the most depraved, tortured and delinquent souls ever to walk the earth, all with one thing in common, a somewhat drunken disposition. The A - Z of Hellraisers is the last word on boozy misbehaviour and the miscreant mob in this whopper of a book constitute the most amazing grouping to ever see print. From Winston Churchill to Keith Moon, George Best to Ernest Hemingway, Wild Bill Hickok to Sam Peckinpah, Ozzy Osbourne to Errol Flynn, this hilarious volume scrutinises and salutes these glorious individuals. Just thank God we didn't have to live next door to any of them.

Author Biography

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.

Review

Contains some hair-raising anecdotes and some priceless one-liners * Daily Mail Book of the Week *

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This quirky and anecdote-driven A-Z compendium celebrates the most outrageous, depraved, tortured and eccentric hellraisers the world has ever seen.

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Contains some hair-raising anecdotes and some priceless one-liners

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"One hell of a ride."

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This quirky and anecdote-driven A-Z compendium celebrates the most outrageous, depraved, tortured and eccentric hellraisers the world has ever seen.

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