Tony Hancock: The Definitive Biography
by John Fisher
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Manufacturer: Harper
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9780007266777
ISBN: 0007266774
Label: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Publisher: Harper
Studio: Harper
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Summary: Big Book of Hancock
Comment: This big book of Hancock is like combining many of he previously published books, nothing new here, but still good if you don't have the others. Same photos as already published, nothing new there. Otherwise, would recommend if you don't already own a Hancock bio.
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Summary: Probably the last word on "the lad"
Comment: This isn't the first account of Tony Hancock's life. Variously his agent/wife Freddie, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams among others have covered his story to one degree or another. The previous "full" account - When the Wind Changed - concentrated more on the scurrilous allegations of Tony's life -but, as John Fisher effectively says in hs preface here, you need to take some of that with a pinch of salt.
I guess we're not likely to have a more definitive biography than this one looking at the wealth of contributions to it. Fisher clearly knows his British comedy, as he pompously keeps telling us, but you are left with a very clear idea of where Hancock's humour came from, the contribution he made and the footprint he left. I'm tempted to say he left a huge shadow but it is clear that it was exactly those sort of puns which represented his dislike - if not loathing - of his self image.
The truth is that he was the best British comic actor of our time but he was fatally unable to simply recopgnise that and luxuriate in the genuine love his audience and colleagues had for him (Sid James comes out of this particularly sympathetically). Fisher brings out very well Hancock's huge intellectual pretensions and the negative impact his ever growing quest for perfection had on his comedy and those around him.
Hancock's alcoholism, mental illness and lapses into violence and abuse are well and responsibly handled by Fisher. Ultimately it leaves you with a real sense of sadness for what Hancock did to himself and what we lost. But there is a huge amount of good to remember and this long (very long)and exhaustive view of the lad and his times is rewarding at all times.
I finished the book and watched a couple of old TV shows straightaway, Brilliance.
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