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Published to coincide with Ken Dodd’s fiftieth year in show business.

In the first full biography of this much-loved funnyman, Stephen Griffin delves inside the life of a legendary performer who is still touring the country in his late seventies, performing his exhausting four-hour show in front of packed houses. The last of the great music hall-inspired variety comics, Doddy still lives in the house in which he grew up in Liverpool’s Knotty Ash, has never married (despite two lengthy engagements) and remains, behind the manic public persona, a very private man.