Hello Goodbye Hello is a daisy chain of 101 fascinating true encounters, a book that has been hailed by reviewers in London as “howlingly funny” (The Spectator), “original and a complete delight” (The Sunday Times), and “rich and hugely enjoyable” (The Guardian). Or, as the London Evening Standard put it, “the truth and nothing but the plain, bonkers, howling truth . . . It is partly a huge karmic parlour game, partly a dance to the music of chaos—and only the genius of Craig Brown could have produced it.” Who could imagine such unlikely—but true— encounters as these:
Martha Graham meets Madonna
Igor Stravinsky meets Walt Disney
Frank Lloyd Wright meets Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe meets Nikita Khrushchev
President Richard Nixon meets Elvis Presley
Harpo Marx meets George Bernard Shaw
Cecil Beaton meets Mick Jagger
Salvador Dali meets Sigmund Freud
Groucho Marx meets T.S. Eliot
Brilliant in conception, Hello Goodbye Hello shows how the celebrated and gifted—like the rest of us— got along famously or disastrously or indifferently with one another, but, thanks to Craig Brown, always to our amusement and entertainment.
From an opening story in which Adolf Hitler survives being knocked down by a careless English driver in 1931 to the Duchess of Windsor’s meeting with the Führer over tea, and 99 others in between, Hello Goodbye Hello is the perfect example that truth is stranger than fiction (and infinitely more enjoyable).
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- Cover
- Dedication
- Note to the U.S. Edition
- Author’s Note
- Adolf Hitler + John Scott-Ellis
- John Scott-Ellis + Rudyard Kipling
- Rudyard Kipling + Mark Twain
- Mark Twain + Helen Keller
- Helen Keller + Martha Graham
- Martha Graham + Madonna
- Madonna + Michael Jackson
- Michael Jackson + Nancy Reagan
- Nancy Reagan + Andy Warhol
- Andy Warhol + Jackie Kennedy
- Jackie Kennedy + HM Queen Elizabeth II
- HM Queen Elizabeth II + The Duke of Windsor
- The Duke of Windsor + Elizabeth Taylor
- Elizabeth Taylor + James Dean
- James Dean + Alec Guinness
- Alec Guinness + Evelyn Waugh
- Evelyn Waugh + Igor Stravinsky
- Igor Stravinsky + Walt Disney
- Walt Disney + P.L. Travers
- P.L. Travers + George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
- George Ivanovich Gurdjieff + Frank Lloyd Wright
- Frank Lloyd Wright + Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe + Nikita Khrushchev
- Nikita Khrushchev + George Brown
- George Brown + Eli Wallach
- Eli Wallach + Frank Sinatra
- Frank Sinatra + Dominick Dunne
- Dominick Dunne + Phil Spector
- Phil Spector + Leonard Cohen
- Leonard Cohen + Janis Joplin
- Janis Joplin + Patti Smith
- Patti Smith + Allen Ginsberg
- Allen Ginsberg + Francis Bacon
- Francis Bacon + HRH Princess Margaret
- HRH Princess Margaret + Kenneth Tynan
- Kenneth Tynan + Truman Capote
- Truman Capote + Peggy Lee
- Peggy Lee + President Richard M. Nixon
- President Richard M. Nixon + Elvis Presley
- Elvis Presley + Paul McCartney
- Paul McCartney + Noël Coward
- Noël Coward + Prince Felix Youssoupoff
- Prince Felix Youssoupoff + Grigori Rasputin
- Grigori Rasputin + Tsar Nicholas II
- Tsar Nicholas II + Harry Houdini
- Harry Houdini + President Theodore Roosevelt
- President Theodore Roosevelt + H.G. Wells
- H.G. Wells + Josef Stalin
- Josef Stalin + Maxim Gorky
- Maxim Gorky + Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy + Pyotr Il’ich Tchaikovsky
- Pyotr Il’ich Tchaikovsky + Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Sergei Rachmaninoff + Harpo Marx
- Harpo Marx + George Bernard Shaw
- George Bernard Shaw + Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell + Sarah Miles
- Sarah Miles + Terence Stamp
- Terence Stamp + Edward Heath
- Edward Heath + Walter Sickert
- Walter Sickert + Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill + Laurence Olivier
- Laurence Olivier + J.D. Salinger
- J.D. Salinger + Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway + Ford Madox Ford
- Ford Madox Ford + Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde + Marcel Proust
- Marcel Proust + James Joyce
- James Joyce + Harold Nicolson
- Harold Nicolson + Cecil Beaton
- Cecil Beaton + Mick Jagger
- Mick Jagger + Tom Driberg
- Tom Driberg + Christopher Hitchens
- Christopher Hitchens + George Galloway
- George Galloway + Michael Barrymore
- Michael Barrymore + Diana, Princess of Wales
- Diana, Princess of Wales + Princess Grace
- Princess Grace + Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Hitchcock + Raymond Chandler
- Raymond Chandler + Howard Hawks
- Howard Hawks + Howard Hughes
- Howard Hughes + Cubby Broccoli
- Cubby Broccoli + George Lazenby
- George Lazenby + Simon Dee
- Simon Dee + Michael Ramsey
- Michael Ramsey + Geoffrey Fisher
- Geoffrey Fisher + Roald Dahl
- Roald Dahl + Kingsley Amis
- Kingsley Amis + Anthony Armstrong-Jones
- Lord Snowdon + Barry Humphries
- Barry Humphries + Salvador Dalí
- Salvador Dalí + Sigmund Freud
- Sigmund Freud + Gustav Mahler
- Gustav Mahler + Auguste Rodin
- Auguste Rodin + Isadora Duncan
- Isadora Duncan + Jean Cocteau
- Jean Cocteau + Charlie Chaplin
- Charlie Chaplin + Groucho Marx
- Groucho Marx + T.S. Eliot
- T.S. Eliot + Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother + The Duchess of Windsor
- The Duchess of Windsor + Adolf Hitler
- Acknowledgements
- About Craig Brown
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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