Wrestler-turned-film-and-television actor Pat Roach tells his life story to his co-writer Shirley Thompson. This book traces Pat's life from poverty-stricken childhood to famous celebrity. It reveals the man behind the image, and covers his achievements in the field of sport, film and television. If also contains several close encounters with death - and Pat's charity work.
The true-life story of wrestler-turned-film-and-television actor, Pat Roach, focuses on the crucial role that Birmingham has played in his life. This entertaining and informative book includes the Jewellery Quarter, Ladywood, Balsall Heath, Winson Green, Sparkhill, Sparkbrook, Lozells, Aston and Newtown. In this well-illustrated biography, that is so much more than simply a nostalgic trip around Birmingham, Pat reveals the high and low points of his life. Readers are taken on a roller-coaster of a journey, from the shady world of 'duckers-and-divers' and illegal drinking clubs, to the dizzy heights of Pat's success, in the international world of sport, films and television. A penultimate chapter describes hilarious trips abroad. The diverse range of contributors includes The Reverend Tom Pyke, Vicar of St Paul's Church in the Jewellery Quarter, two professors, (Carl Chinn and Norman Cherry), author Marie Haddleton, craftsmen, jewellers, antique dealers, broadcasters, artists and entrepreneurs. Celebrity wrestlers, such as Wayne Bridges, Jackie Pallo and Killer Kowalski, make an important contribution, together with Pat's immediate family, relatives, and friends.
Pat Roach - the 'Gentle Giant' battled with cancer for six-and-a-half years, before it eventually claimed him, in the small hours of Saturday 17 July, 2004. This work combines Pat's final experiences and thoughts, with over seventy tributes from close family and friends.
That's it. This is the last straw. Too many times Tim has been unfaithful and me like a fool have always forgiven him. Now this! My best friend! Our daughters Godmother. How could he so low? After seventeen years of marriage he has to go. If he stays around me he's a dead man. Lynette and me can't leave because she's graduating this year. All our friends are both our friends and I don't want to involve them in our mess. I can't go home to my parents because there have been too many lies they know nothing about. I tried to cover up all the lies but now I can't do it anymore. I feel as though I'm self-destructing. What am I going to do? I knew when I married Tim that one day my world was going to come crashing down around me. I really tried to do the right thing and it still backfired. Why did I get myself in this mess?
Termight is a world at the heart of a cruel galatic empire, a world devastated by nuclear warfare. Deep below ground, its inhabitants try to eke out a mere existence, continually threatened by the Terminators. But there is resistance in the form of Warlock - champion of the coming rebellion!
The legendary Pat Boone takes a golden look back at fifty years in the entertainment business with this in-dept coffee table book of photos, pop culture memories, and spiritual insights.
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