George Melly - What's up with this guy?

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Eyeball · #1 Post by **Eyeball** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:56 pm

I'm listening to some BBC production about Glenn Miller and it is narrated by Geo Melly and he stinks. I realize he didn't write the terrible script or produce the ill-targeted show, but he is such a slithering pompous ass.

Haydn - what's was this guy's deal? He almost seems like a Jazz dilettante.

Haydn · #2 Post by **Haydn** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:02 pm

Eyeball wrote:I'm listening to some BBC production about Glenn Miller and it is narrated by Geo Melly and he stinks. I realize he didn't write the terrible script or produce the ill-targeted show, but he is such a slithering pompous ass.

Haydn - what's was this guy's deal? He almost seems like a Jazz dilettante.

Dilettante: A person who enjoys the arts or someone who engages in a field as an amateur out of casual interest rather than as a profession.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilettante

I never saw him, but, from what I remember when he was alive, he had a reputation as a jazz fan who liked 'the good life'. I think he also had a name for being an entertaining performer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3493375.stm