Owning Up

This single volume contains three memoirs from George Melly. "Scouse Mouse" is the touching story of the author's childhood; "Rum, Bum & Concertina" describes Melly's National Service; and "Owning Up" describes how he slipped into the world of the jazz revival.

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George Melly's three autobiographical memoirs - "Scouse Mouse", "Rum, Bum and Concertina" and "Owning Up" in one volume for the first time. An account of the author's life from childhood in middle-class Liverpool in the thirties, through national service in the navy as an ordinary seaman to his emergence as a connoisseur of surrealist art and his career as a jazz singer.