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During a concert performance in Las Vegas in August 1970, Elvis Presley said, ‘There was a guy who said one time, he said, “You never stood in that man’s shoes or saw things through his eyes, or stood and watched with helpless hands, while the heart inside you dies. So help your brother along the way, no matter where he starts, because the same God that made you, made him, too.” I’d like to sing a song along the same line …’ That analogy seemed apt as I readied this manuscript.

Thanks to John Blake for asking me to write it and to Mark Hanks for getting it commissioned to me. Thanks too, to my editor Vicky McGeown for being simply fantastic with every aspect of its production, and to my copy editor Jane Donovan for making sense of it all. I am also indebted to Sean Delaney at the British Film Institute for the dozens of articles and providing an accurate television listing. For their support and encouragement with most other things, my thanks go to Keith Hayward for coming up with some last-minute research facts and figures, Charlotte Rasmussen for her critique and for being such a huge fan of all my previous works ever since I wrote about Winona Ryder, Guy Buckland for the great author picture, Graeme Andrew for the stunning cover and brilliant design, Neil Rees, my Kylie cohort, for his generosity and input, John Highfield for his advice and help and for some great press, Diana Colbert for always doing such a great job with publicity, Michael Wilson for locating some late snippets of news and info, my accountant Jon Terry for, well, being my accountant, and Simon Golding for his friendship every step of the way – I cannot imagine sharing my 3am emails with anyone else. As always, my love to my children Adam and Kim for their usual enthusiasm and for understanding and appreciating the long hours that went into this work.

Nigel Goodall