Spike milligan biography book

I've read my copy of Scudamore's biography of Spike Milligan several times now and it still, nearly forty years after its publication, gives perhaps the most meaningful biographical representation of Milligan's life and personality outside his own work.

Spike Milligan achieves this because his biographer doesn't aim to record everything about what he did professionally, nor all his personal experiences.

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The reason why Scudamore was able to produce the definitive biography of Milligan was because she was able to capture much of his contradictions, his paradoxical nature, and to get inside the head and heart of a man who was "a skin too short", and then put it all down in print.

How did Scudamore achieve this?

Well, as one reads her biography she repeatedly draws both Spike himself and others that knew him into her narrative, and lets their own words form the basis for her biography. This is coupled with an ability to be both attached an