Going Off Alarming: The Autobiography: Vol 2 (35 page)

Thumb chums. Sonny in our front room with Paul Gascoigne. Paul is on the right.

At the beginning of Donald Duck films he looks like this, like he can’t believe his luck. It is my default expression whenever I’m asked to pose.
‘Don’t
do your DD
face,’
begs Wendy. I always do. (Craig Easton)

Atop a mountain in Spain on yet another holiday. I convinced my thinning hair to gather on the western slopes of my skull to fool the camera.

In New York at 5am with the Saw Doctors who I’d met in a bar. We were broadcasting live, loud and very drunk back to Radio 1.

Burying pianos on beaches for Radio 1. Stunned, I have just realized I will be needing this shirt for the cover of
Going to Sea in a Sieve
.

My Spitting Image. As I got balder the puppet strangely began to grow more hair. (See Oscar Wilde,
The Importance of Being Gormless.
) (Spitting Image Productions Ltd)

Saturation Point in 1993. Within thirty minutes of this portrait I was utterly bald and as fat as a house.

The Zapruder footage of the Kennedy assassination has been reproduced more than this photo. The story behind it is, arguably, more shocking. (Fiona Hanson/PA Archive/Press Association Images)

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Going to Sea in a Sieve

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First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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