The 50 Pound Cure
by Ben Stone
Title
The 50 Pound Cure
Artist
Ben Stone
Medium
Photograph - Photography-giclee
Description
An All New Surrealist Digital painting With A "Spike Milligan (The Goon Show) Theme". It Is Entitled "The £50 Cure", art work created by Ben Stone. I hope you like it, thank you for stopping by and visiting for awhile and please remember this "Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist." ~ René Magritte.
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Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish[a] comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British Colonial India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself "Spike" after hearing the band Spike Jones and his City Slickers on Radio Luxembourg.
Milligan was the co-creator, main writer, and a principal cast member of the British radio comedy program The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the characters Eccles and Minnie Bannister. He was the earliest-born and last surviving member of the Goons. He took his success with The Goon Show into television with Q5, a surreal sketch show credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
He wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon (1963) and a seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971). He also wrote comical verse, with much of his poetry written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids (1959).
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March 2nd, 2024
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