In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile
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Overview
A major source for the BBC drama The Reckoning
Winner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction Dagger
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black Prize
Dan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death. In the course of his quest, he spent days and nights at a time quizzing Savile at his homes in Leeds and Scarborough, lunched with him at venues ranging from humble transport cafes to the Athenaeum club in London and, most memorably, joined him for a short cruise aboard the QE2. Dan thought his quest had come to an end in October 2011 when Savile's golden coffin was lowered into a grave dug at a 45-degree angle in a Scarborough cemetery. He was wrong. In the last two and a half years, Dan has been interviewing scores of people, many of them unobtainable while Jimmy was alive. What he has discovered was that his instincts were right all along and behind the mask lay a hideous truth. Jimmy Savile was not only complex, damaged and controlling, but cynical, calculating and predatory. He revelled in his status as a Pied Piper of youth and used his power to abuse the vulnerable and underage, all the while covering his tracks by moving into the innermost circles of the establishment.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782067450 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Publication date: | 07/17/2014 |
| Sold by: | Hachette Digital, Inc. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Sales rank: | 592,852 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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Table of Contents
Part 1
1 Apocalypse now then 3
2 Frisk him 12
3 Not again child 20
4 The first brick 31
5 The world was completely black 40
6 Specialist subject: 'Jimmy Savile' 46
7 They felt they were in control 50
8 The power of oddness 59
9 Old and infirm 69
10 'Power' is the wrong word 80
11 I didn't ask 85
12 Look up, you bastard 94
Part 2
13 Oscar 'The Duke' 101
14 Smokescreen 109
15 Didn't die, very good 116
16 All front and no back 120
17 Scumbags and slags 127
18 Sonderkommandos 137
19 Someone the kids could look up to 141
20 Little slaves 148
21 A lot worse if it was true 158
22 Project DJ 161
Part 3
23 Nostalgic memories 173
24 The only punter you can recognise from the back 179
25 Let 'em think 184
26 A cross between a Beatle and an Aldwych farce curate 193
27 A dead straight pull time 201
28 Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings 206
29 An old man even then 214
30 TCP tonight 224
31 Good enough to eat 236
32 They know I'm honest 243
33 Eins, zwei, drei in the sky 251
34 More insidious than filth 254
Part 4
35 Young crumpet that would knock your eyes out 265
36 A bloody saint 274
37 It's obscene 281
38 The best five days of my life 285
39 Pied Piper 292
40 The only thing you can expect from pigs 299
41 We always line our artists up 302
42 A particularly religious moment 310
43 The 1976 temptation 318
44 Your porter hurt me 327
45 Am I saved? 338
Part 5
46 Rewriting history 349
47 Sir James 355
48 All sorts of trouble 365
49 I wouldn't let the side down 371
50 Like a Stradivarius 380
51 SOS - Same Old Shit 389
52 T am the boss - it's as simple as that 393
53 50 million, give or take a few quid 407
54 Runners are junkies 410
55 Off the hook 421
56 And a bit of leg-over and chips 430
57 Ultimate freedom 433
58 Avoid 444
Part 6
59 The wrong idea forever 449
60 Operation Ornament 463
61 The policy 472
62 Piss and shite 482
63 Mistakes were made 487
64 Two 16-year-old girls from the Ukraine 495
65 The last great gimmick 499
66 In the palm of his hand 511
67 No local connection 523
68 Jimmy Savile is a bastard 532
69 A culture of complicity 544
70 All that remains 556
Endnotes 569
Select Bibliography 592
Acknowledgements 596
Picture Credits 598
Index 599