Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan, KBE (April 16, 1918 – February 27, 2002) was a comedian, novelist, playwright, poet, jazz musician (trumpet and guitar - also played the piano - and was a dab hand at raspberry blowing) and is best remembered as the creator, principal writer and performing member of The Goon Show.

Books

• Silly Verse for Kids (1959); the 1968 paperback edition omits one poem and adds some from the next two books
• A Dustbin of Milligan (1961)
• The Little Pot Boiler (1963)
• Puckoon (1963)
• A Book of Bits, or A Bit of a Book (1965)
• A Book of Milliganimals (1968)
• ' (1987)
• The Bedside Milligan
• "The War (and Peace) Memoirs"
• ' (1971; Jim Dale played Milligan and Milligan played his own father in the film version of this book.)
• Rommel? Gunner Who? A Confrontation in the Desert
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• '
• Where Have All the Bullets Gone? (1985)
• Goodbye Soldier
• Peace Work
• '
• Open Heart University
• Startling Verse for All the Family
• A Mad Medley of Milligan
• Transports of Delight
• More Transports of Delight
• Depression and How to Survive It (with Professor Anthony Clare), medical biography.
• It Ends with Magic
• The "According to" Books
• The Bible - the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan
• Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan
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• Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan
• The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan
• Lady Chatterley's Lover According to Spike Milligan
• Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan
• Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan
• Wuthering Heights According to Spike Milligan