When The Wind Changed : The Life and Death of Tony Hancock

by Cliff Goodwin (Author)

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  Illustrated
  1999

  $4.19

  This work tells the story of Tony Hancock, one of Britain's top comedians. Despite his success he was racked by doubt and insecurity, haunted by irrational obsessions, a chronic alcoholic and temperamental to the point of collapse. This book details his complex and troubled life. Aggressive, possessive, untidy, vague, unreliable, drunken, seedy, overweight, a survivor of endless breakdowns, Tony Hancock was a complex character. His ruthless and often shabby ingratitude alienated many of his closest friends and left his two wives battered and broken. He also felt his own identity was being swallowed up in the fictional persona of Antony Aloysius St John Hancock, the pompous buffoon of 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam. Tony Hancock committed suicide in Sydney in June 1968. He was jsut 44 years old.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.25

  More than 30 years after his death Tony Hancock still enjoy's cult status. He has the distinction of being known simply by his surname- Hancock. The word defined not only the man but his art. Using a wealth of previously unpublished material, Cliff Goodwin reveals at last the man behind the myth.