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You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone: The life and work of Eric Morecambe

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You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone: The life and work of Eric Morecambe
Gary Morecambe

To mark the 25th anniversary of Eric Morecambe’s death, You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone is the first book to cover Eric’s whole life and untimely death, including unseen family photographs and new insights by Eric’s son Gary Morecambe.Published in the 25th anniversary year of Eric Morecambe’s death, You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone is a celebration of Eric Morecambe’s life in words and previously unseen personal family photographs.Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise are to this day still regarded as Britain’s most successful and best loved comedy duo, and their television shows from the 1970’s and 80’s are undoubtedly their finest work.For the first time, Eric Morecambe’s whole life, from his earliest days in his home-town of Morecambe right up to his death in Gloucestershire in 1984 are appraised by his son Gary. Included are photographs not seen by the family until recently – poignantly one of Eric at a friend’s wedding the day before he would collapse and die on stage. As the final and definitive book on Eric Morecambe,You’ll Miss Me features interviews with those who knew and loved Eric, including his wife Joan, Ronnie Corbett, Hamish McColl who wrote and starred in The Play What I Wrote and a foreword by Judi Dench.’You’ll miss me when I’m gone’ was Eric’s oft repeated plaintive remark when he’d been annoying the Morecambe family with his gags.The irony is that, 25 years after his death, the viewing nation still misses Eric Morecambe.

You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone

A Celebration of the Life and Work of Eric Morecambe

GARY MORECAMBE

For my mother, Joan, because I’ve never taken the time to say thank you for everything.

In memory of my friend and former colleague Eddie Waters who died suddenly this year.

‘I remain one thing and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.’ Charlie Chaplin

‘It takes courage and openness to achieve authenticity—to be able to say to yourself and to the world, “Like it or not, this is who I am,” and then to live that truth.’

DAN MILLMAN

‘[Morecambe and Wise are] the greatest double act in the history of British television.’ THE INDEPENDENT

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#u208f1bc4-4003-58f9-933e-4d4bf92339e4)

Title Page (#ue316fba2-854e-5333-99e0-7077739979a6)

Dedication (#u664c5984-b183-5aed-893b-66699dcc5ab3)

Epigraph (#ubd129c70-a88d-523b-9276-5e18224b117e)

Foreword (#u81c800f3-1266-5c1e-bd32-a1048bdd6064)

Letter from Ronnie Corbett OBE (#u910f5c5e-c371-5334-8e30-e1ee582d6276)

PART ONE: Remembering Eric (#u7fe53b9a-f67b-5bb4-a625-26738b7a43ac)

This Boy’s a Fool (#u6744038d-15a6-55cc-8e99-bc0acb7c942d)

From Morecambe Bay to Broadway (#u4b9e635d-0ab5-57a9-a963-e527acd58ba6)

The Early Days A Very Good Place to Start (#u5b1430d9-847b-5fda-9256-07e6bf689c58)

The Bash Street Kids (#u0a3fd180-1285-5658-8562-5486bd808bd4)

Meet the Folks (#litres_trial_promo)

When Eric Met Ernie (#litres_trial_promo)

Eric’s World War (#litres_trial_promo)

Goodbye Theatreland, Hello TV (#litres_trial_promo)

Heroes and Villains (#litres_trial_promo)

Healthy, Wealthy… and Wise (#litres_trial_promo)

New York! (#litres_trial_promo)

Makin’ Movies (#litres_trial_promo)

Makin’ Movies (Part Two) (#litres_trial_promo)

Curtain Call (#litres_trial_promo)

PART TWO: Wit and Wisdom (#litres_trial_promo)

In Eric and Ernie’s Words (#litres_trial_promo)

In Eric’s words (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

Sources (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Foreword (#ulink_5d97d21e-60a0-5787-8167-3a2fa1bb22cd)

by Dame Judi Dench OBE

Like everybody else, I was completed bewitched by The Morecambe and Wise Show. It was the highlight of the week to watch and never to be missed. When the glorious moment came of being invited to appear on the show, I could not wait. I was SO excited! Among other things, we did Ernie’s version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I remember Eric walking through the set of a foggy London with three legs! We laughed until we wept. He also kept calling me ‘young man’. Eric and Ernie were the most amazing complement to each other.

My late husband, the actor Michael Williams, and I saw quite a lot of Eric afterwards and he often came to our house for a meal. The first time this happened, Eric asked me what was for dinner. When I told him it was salmon, he said he would just have the vegetables, and I thought it was a joke. It turned out that he really did not like salmon and did just eat the vegetables. The next time, he brought with him a whole salmon that he had caught himself—and still just had the vegetables!

Eric was genuinely funny, but never unkind with his humour. I still miss him and shall never forget him. This book, commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Eric’s passing, is the most wonderful tribute to an extraordinary man.

DAME JUDI DENCH OBE

Letter from Ronnie Corbett OBE (#ulink_326c0fbd-dc71-5e14-a8db-0207262c68c0)

Dear Gary, Of course I knew Eric very well indeed. We were both members of the Lord’sTaverners at the same time, and of course saw each other quite a lot at their functions, and their dinners and their balls etc., and Joan and he were always a delight to bump into, and Joan remains so of course.

I probably didn’t know Eric nearly as well as Ronnie B did, because I have been a South London boy, although I’m a Scotsman of course, but I have lived in South London all my life. Ronnie lived always up in the Hatch End area, and Eric also living North of London saw somewhat more of him I think; they even had dinners together at their homes, so Ron was more of an expert than me on him, but of course I am a huge admirer of Eric.
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