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Connolly, Ray was born on December 4, 1940 in St. Helens, England. Son of John and Anne Connolly.
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The extraordinary decade of the 1960's was always slightly out of sync. It began late - with a remarkable flourish in 1963 with The Beatles, That Was the Week That Was, the Profumo affair and the Great Train Robbery all competing in an atmosphere of giggling frivolity for newspaper headlines - and ended in the early seventies in disillusionment, growing unemployment and accelerating inflation. During that period Ray Connolly was at the centre of the whirlpool of popular arts and rock music, and his weekly journalistic profile of the famous and infamous became an acknowledged notice-board for the style-makers of the sixties. This book collects fifty of his most celebrated character studies and for the most part the subjects are men and women from the author's own age-group - Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, Peter Fonda, David Bailey and Germaine Greer - young people who saw the opportunity to make waves during that era of extravagance, and whose images we saw reflected everywhere. In compiling this book, Ray Connolly has been able to recall the superstars of that time and also to discover what has happened to them since those days of heady optimism.
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Connolly, Ray was born on December 4, 1940 in St. Helens, England. Son of John and Anne Connolly.
He was educated at West Park Catholic Grammar School, Saint Helens, Ormskirk Grammar School and the London School of Economics where he read social anthropology.
After entering journalism as a graduate trainee at the Liverpool Daily Post, Connolly then moved to the London Evening Standard where he interviewed, among others, many Sixties and Seventies rock stars and cultural icons, including the Beatles, Muhammad Ali and Elvis Presley. Many of his interviews with the Beatles are collected in his eBook The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive, while other interviews are collected in Stardust Memories - Talking About My Generation. He was due to interview John Lennon on the day the ex-Beatle was murdered, an event he wrote about in the British Broadcasting Corporation radio play Unimaginable"".
In addition to the biography John Lennon 1940-1980, he wrote the introduction to The Beatles Complete songbook.
He has written many articles for the Daily Mail, as well as The Sunday Times, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Observer. His novels include; A Girl Who Came To Stay, Newsdeath, Sunday Morning, Shadows On A Wall, Love Out Of Season (which was adapted for radio as God Bless Our Love) and Kill Foreign Love.
Foreign the cinema he wrote the films That"ll Be The Day and Stardust - which was voted the Best Screenplay of 1974 by the Writers" Guild Of Great Britain. He also wrote and directed the feature-length documentary entitled James Dean: The First American Teenager, while his television drama series have included Honky Tonk Heroes, Lytton"s Diary and Perfect Scoundrels.
television films include Forever Young for Channel 4 and Defrosting The Fridge for the British Broadcasting Corporation, while he co-wrote, with Alan Benson, the BBC2 George Martin series about music The Rhythm of Life.
He has also written several radio plays, including Lost Fortnight (which is about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood), the series Tim Merryman"s Days Of Clover, and Sorry, Boys, You Failed The Audition, as well as several short stories for various publications, which are collected in A Handful Of Love.
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Married Elaine Balmforth, April 16, 1966. Children: Louise, Dominic, Kieron.