Download or read book Champagne in Monte Carlo-Chips on Wigan Pier written by Norman Smeddles and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-23 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my story of trying to 'make it' in showbusiness. It's about how I got my first guitar and how I was caught up in the Merseybeat phenomenon of the 1960s.I was desperate to make music my career and I managed to go from playing on the church youth clubs of Liverpool to the Cavern Club to Television and to The Albert Hall and The London Palladium. How I went on to work with Shirley Bassey, Morecambe and Wise, Benny Hill, Jimmy Tarbuck, Rolf Harris and many more and how I went on to perform for Prince Charles, The Queen and Prince Phillip. But it's also the story of the hard times in the Workingmen's Clubs and Miner's Clubs of the North East and South Wales the late late nights and the boring travelling. It's a story with humour and sadness, elation and disappointment.How it all started and how it all ended and it's also about the many friends I met along the way.