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	Spike Milligan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, to an Irish-born officer in the British Army.
		Milligan returned to England in the late 1940s and made a precarious living with the Hall trio and other similar acts mixing music and comedy, while attempting to break into the world of radio, both performing and scriptwriting.
		Milligan lived for several years in Holden Road, Woodside Park and at The Crescent, Barnet, and was a strong supporter of the Finchley Society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spike_Milligan (2200 words)

	Tribute To Spike Milligan
		Of course Spike Milligan will always be remembered as the creator of "The Goons" A radio comedy show years ahead of it`s time.
		Spike Milligan was without a doubt the funniest man who ever walked on this earth.
		Spike once called Prince Charles a "Little grovelling bastard" at an awards ceremony in 1994 and later sent him a fax saying " I suppose a Knighthood is now out of the question".
	members.aol.com /mrwirrall/mrwirrall.com/Tribute_To_Spike_Milligan.html (644 words)

	"I told you I was ill," Spike Milligan (1918-2002)
		Terence Alan (‘Spike’) Milligan was born of an Irish father and English mother in India in 1918.
		Milligan did his basic training as a gunner at the south coast resort of Bexhill, where he encountered more of the useless bureaucracy that was to be his favourite target for the rest of his life.
		Milligan himself saw the intensity of his commitment as having contributed to the success of the show: “I’d had a terrible nervous breakdown—two, three, four, five nervous breakdowns, one after the other.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/mar2002/mill-m07.shtml (2066 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Spike Milligan
		Spike Milligan, who has died aged 83 of kidney failure, was once talking about Eccles, his favourite Goon Show character.
		He lived his life at the end of his mind's tether and was always a man of seemingly irreconcilable contradictions: an anarchist with a passion for conservation, a vulnerable and acutely sensitive exhibitionist, a sophisticated person who preferred to retain a vision of childlike purity.
		Milligan rarely had much of an inkling of what he was going to do, even at far more formal, scripted occasions.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,659215,00.html (1664 words)

	BBC News \| TV AND RADIO \| Charles leads Milligan tributes
		Milligan was one of Britain's most respected performers and was known to millions as one of the founding members of The Goons.
		Milligan is said to have picked the word goon out of a Popeye comic and started using it as derogatory term for people he saw as idiots.
		Milligan was credited with writing the majority of the Goon scripts but during series three he suffered a breakdown and had to miss 12 episodes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1843963.stm (702 words)

	BBC News \| TALKING POINT \| Spike Milligan: Your tributes
		Spike once said that in writing the scripts, under such pressure (including the self-imposed pressure to be mind-bendingly funny, week in, week out), he was trying to claim his place in heaven.
		Spike Milligan was a true genius who tilted at windmills with the strong lance of his view of life.
		Spike Milligan could make us laugh till the tears ran and our bellies ached, but behind the humour was a man that hurt with pain at what we do to each other and to our beautiful world.
	www.jitfact.co.uk /spike/tributes.htm (7302 words)

	ipedia.com: Spike Milligan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spike Milligan Kt CBE was a comedian, novelist, poet, jazz musician and member of the Goons.
		Spike Milligan Kt CBE (April 16, 1918–February 27, 2002) was a comedian, novelist, poet, jazz musician (trumpet and guitar) and member of the Goons.
		Spike Milligan suffered from bipolar disorder for most of his life, having at least ten breakdowns.
	www.ipedia.com /spike_milligan.html (1040 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Nailing Spike
		Spike suffered from an advanced case of the comedian's love of people combined with a hatred and loathing of humanity as a whole, that bizarre species that can hold forth so eloquently on truth and beauty while recklessly trashing its surroundings.
		Spike's lack of boundaries led him inevitably to fall foul of society's current prohibition on racial stereotypes, which were part and parcel of his upbringing and age.
		Spike himself, of course, was Irish, as so many good wordsmiths of the English language are, and eventually gave up a long battle to retain his British citizenship by taking out an Irish passport, thus avoiding having to swear a demeaning oath to the crown.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/biography/0,6121,1045565,00.html (1103 words)

	BBC News \| TV AND RADIO \| Milligan's comic genius
		The son of an Army warrant officer, Terence Milligan was born in India in 1918 and received his early education at convent schools in India and Burma.
		Spike Milligan had been shell-shocked during the war, and was to suffer several nervous breakdowns, the first while under pressure to churn out the Goon Show scripts.
		Spike Milligan was a towering influence on British comedy, taking music hall ideas and weaving into them his own hilarious absurdities.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1092904.stm (924 words)

	Interview with Spike Milligan
		Milligan felt it necessary to rewrite the classics because of their "exquisites"; those parts of the text that are "beyond us; they are, like, `off the moon'." He explains: "I was reading Lady Chatterley's Lover.
		Twisted parody is something Milligan has been indulging in since his days writing The Goon Show (first broadcast by the BBC in the 50's, still heard on Radio National every Saturday at midday).
		Desmond Patrick Milligan was easy to track down, and "Excuse me Mr Milligan, are you Spike's brother?" was remarkably easy to say, too, provided you didn't think about it much.
	www-staff.mcs.uts.edu.au /~hugh/spike.html (1993 words)

	Spike Milligan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spike was born Terence Alan Milligan in Ahmed Nagar or Ahmadnagar Ahmednagar quick summary:
		Spike Milligan suffered from bipolar disorder[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] for most of his life, EHandler: no quick summary.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spike_milligan.htm (3387 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Spike Milligan - Comedian - A710047
		At Milligan's insistence, The Goon Show ran down its final curtain in 1960 and he did some stage work, a few films and a lot of TV shows, most notably The World of Beachcomber and Q5, which has been called the precursor to Monty Python.
		Milligan, despite his often outrageous and sometimes boorish behaviour was anything but.
		Spike was born in Poona, India in 1918, though, after he was refused a British passport, he later changed his nationality to Irish.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A710047 (1045 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Spike Milligan dies at 83
		Milligan had suffered ill health for sometime and had been nursed by his third wife Shelagh in recent months.
		His Irish father was an army captain, and Spike adopted his nationality after immigration laws declared him "stateless" in 1960, even though he had spent seven years as a gunner on active service in the British Army.
		Milligan was in two minds about the existence of heaven.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,658939,00.html (829 words)

	Scotsman.com News - UK - Comic genius Milligan has last laugh on his gravestone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		IF THE mark of a comic genius is an enduring ability to entertain and raise a smile even in death, then Spike Milligan, the king of madcap and the absurd, has proven his worth.
		Milligan’s family had been unable to agree on a headstone, and finally settled on the Gaelic text to meet with approval from the Chichester Diocese.
		Milligan, who died in 2002, lived at Udimore, near Rye, and had three children with his first wife, June Marlow, and one with his second wife, Patricia Ridgeway.
	news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=593572004 (534 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Spike Milligan: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Humphrey Carpenter's Spike Milligan: The Biography is a brilliantly incisive journey into the life and mind of this mentally tormented comedy genius, and no subsequent book is likely to offer such a striking picture of a unique entertainment life.
		I was surprised that he decided to choose Spike Milligan as a subject and a bit worried when he started the book with a sort of mock Goon show script.
		Spike was a one-off and quite why he developed as he did as an artist is maybe just too difficult to explain.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0340826126 (971 words)

	Spike Milligan - Interesting Motherfuckers - Acid Logic ezine
		But what you can definitely call Spike Milligan is "The Master Of Crazy Comedy", that All Out Psychotic School Of Humor pioneered by the Marx Brothers and Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons before Spike brought it to BBC Radio with "The Goon Show" in the fifties.
		Spike was born 1918 in India where his Irish father was a soldier in the Royal Army and Spike spent the first sixteen years of his life there.
		Spike was still suffering from post "blown up" trauma and having to write the scripts for "The Goon Show" all by himself.
	www.acidlogic.com /im_spike_milligan.htm (2001 words)

	Alternatives to Valium: Spike Milligan: Goon, Loon, Manic Depressive Comic Genius
		Milligan put a marzipan cake on the table and arced his hand around the room.
		Milligan had some difficulty convincing the authorities of the seriousness of his condition.
		Milligan said he took his sense of humour from his Dundonian grandmother, Flora Burnside, who had an infectious, hysterical laugh, often delivered in response to the misfortunes of others.
	alternativestovalium.blogspot.com /2006/02/spike-milligan-goon-loon-manic.html (1442 words)

	The Goons - Spike Milligan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Terrence Allan "Spike" Milligan was born in India on 16 April 1918 of English parents.
		Spike worked as a factory hand and a scrubber in a laundry, as well as playing trumpet, before being conscripted into the army at the outbreak of World War 11.
		Spike Milligan, aged 83, died on 27 February 2002 from liver failure.
	www.menziesera.com /people/goons_miligan.shtml (522 words)

	Spike Milligan @ Catharton Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Milligan and Bentine were regarded by Secombe and Sellers as the creative core of the outfit, but artistic differences made Bentine go solo and left Spike as the show's main driving force until its final broadcast.
		Spike was very exact about the final soundscape that the script produced, experimenting with different noises and musical arrangements until he got what he wanted.
		Spike quipped that it was different for Charles because he had to pledge allegiance to his mum as she provides him bed and board.
	www.catharton.com /authors/812.htm (1439 words)

	BBC 7 - Comedy - Spike Milligan
		Voted the funniest comedian of the last millennium in a BBC Online vote, Spike Milligan is perhaps best known for his creation, together with Michael Bentine of the Goon Show.
		Spike entirely took over the script writing fairly soon in the first series, but this caused him enormous strain and brought on attacks of manic depression, a disease that he suffered from all his life.
		He was a master of repartee, on being told at a party, "You're Spike Milligan", he replied, "I know who I am, now go home and find out who you are".
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbc7/comedy/progpages/spike/spikemilligan.shtml (440 words)

	Comedian: Spike Milligan
		Terence Alan 'Spike' Milligan was born on April 16, 1918, in Ahmed Nagar, India - the son of an army Captain.
		Milligan has found more acclaim as a humorous novellist with semi-autobiograpical works such as Adolph Hitler: My Part In His Downfall, spoofs like Treasure Island: According to Spike Milligan and comic novels, most notably Puckoon.
		Sadly, Spike's comic genius is seemingly driven from his the clinical depression he has suffered since 1956.
	www.chortle.co.uk /comics/smilligan.html (532 words)

	Spike Milligan's Grave
		Comedian and entertainer Spike Milligan died on February 27th 2002, he was buried in the churchyard at Winchelsea, East Sussex in a grave that remained unmarked for around two years, there have been various reasons given for this which I will not repeat here.
		Spike was at one time Patron of the 1066 Jazz Club, one of my last memories of spike was when he was asked to say "a few words" at the 1066 Jazz Club, he took the microphone, said "A few words", handed it back and sat down again!
		Spike was also a member of Hastings Borough Bonfire Society, see the press cutting in the last picture.
	www.glenister.info /milligangrave.htm (219 words)

	screenonline: Milligan, Spike (1918-2002) Biography
		The well-known typing error Spike Milligna (born Terence Alan Milligan in Ahmaddnagar, India on 16 April 1918) undoubtedly possessed the most original and creative mind among those who emerged onto the British comic scene following the Second World War.
		was to refer to him as "the great god of us all", for Milligan's anarchic and surreal humour played a vital role in transforming and reinvigorating British comedy in the postwar era, exerting a profound influence on his contemporaries and on a generation of comedians to come.
		He began his performing career as a musician before and during the war (he learnt to play the guitar, trumpet, piano and drums as a teenager), and between bouts of active service in North Africa and Italy he played with a variety of bands.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/499582 (583 words)

	Spike Milligan @ Filmbug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Terence Alan (Spike) Milligan, KBE (April 16, 1918 — February 27, 2002) was a comedian, novelist, playwright, poet, jazz musician (trumpet and guitar - also played the piano - and was a dab hand at raspberry blowing) and is best remembered as the creator, principal writer and performing member of The Goon Show.
		His mother lived the rest of her life in the coastal village of Woy Woy on the New South Wales Central Coast, just north of Sydney; as a result, Spike became a regular visitor to Australia and made a number of radio and TV programs there.
		The film of Puckoon was released after Spike's death in 2002 at the age of 83 from liver disease at his home in Rye, East Sussex, and starred one of his daughters, actress Jane Milligan.
	www.filmbug.com /db/31334 (1063 words)

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