Ray Galton and Alan Simpson ? Cyril Maitland/Mirrorpix
Gambols strip ? Copyright 1967 Express Newspapers. Distributed by Knight Features. Reproduced by permission
Tom Sloan at the Eurovision Song Contest ? BBC Photo Library
Mick Jagger at the Trattoria Terrazza ? Mirrorpix
Till Death Us Do Part cast ? BBC/Photoshot
Lucille Ball shooting Lucy in London ? Bob Willoughby/MPTV, Camera Press, London
Harold Wilson and Marcia Williams ? Central Press/Stringer/Hulton/Getty Images
Book cover ? Penguin Books, designed by John Hamilton
Hair cast ? Central Images/Getty Images
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Joanna Prior, Venetia Butterfield, Anna Ridley, Lesley Levene, John Hamilton, Georgia Garrett, Geoff Kloske and – one last time, sadly – Tony Lacey. The books of Graham McCann were invaluable, especially Spike & Co., which is highly recommended to anyone interested in British comedy of the period. And though David Kynaston hasn’t yet reached the 1960s at the time of writing, his three brilliant social histories, Austerity Britain, Family Britain and Modernity Britain, were an inspiration for Funny Girl. Without John Forrester, Sarah Geismar, Sandra Verbeckiene, Hayden Thomas and Sebastien Alleaume, no work would be done, ever. And finally, the work of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson has been an enormous influence on my own writing, and there are lots of ways in which not only this book but my previous books wouldn’t have existed without them.