The redoubtable George Melly (1926-2007): flamboyant jazz singer, sexually ambiguous raconteur, prodigiously gifted critic. This is his first-hand account of those turbulent and exciting years when all things creative - whether music, fashion, film, art or literature - were changed utterly.
George Melly narrates the history of Surrealism and describes his love affair with the movement and its native city.
Paintings and commentary explore the world of such famous lovers as Frankie and Johnnie, Tristan and Isolde, Chopin and George Sand, Virginia Woolf and Victoria Sackville-West, and Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas
After all the years when jazz was driven from public view by pop and rock, a re-emergence started around 1970 - in pubs, in clubs, and dance halls across the country. And with the music, re-emerged George Melly, that veteran jazz singer from the great days of the forties and fifties.