Ask the Author: Ray Connolly
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Ray Connolly
Hi, Tim, I've only just spotted this, and can't find your message to me on Facebook. Could to send your comments to me again, please, but through my website's email: mail@rayconnolly.co.uk.
Stuff gets lost in the river of information on Facebook.
Ray
Stuff gets lost in the river of information on Facebook.
Ray
Ray Connolly
Dear Patrizia,
Thank you for your note.
I'm so glad you enjoyed Being Elvis. No, I won't be writing any more books about Elvis, but I am currently writing one called Being John Lennon which will be published next year. I knew John well for many years and we would often talk about how Elvis changed our teenage lives in the late Fifties.
It was very kind of you to write to me.
With all best wishes
Ray Connolly
Thank you for your note.
I'm so glad you enjoyed Being Elvis. No, I won't be writing any more books about Elvis, but I am currently writing one called Being John Lennon which will be published next year. I knew John well for many years and we would often talk about how Elvis changed our teenage lives in the late Fifties.
It was very kind of you to write to me.
With all best wishes
Ray Connolly
Ray Connolly
Write as much as you can. And read a lot, too. Cut out the adverbs. In my case I write on a computer, print a couple of pages as I go along, correct them and and rewrite them, then put them back into the computer, and keep on doing that until I'm happy. It's a slow process of endless writing, editing, writing, editing...
Ray Connolly
The sense of satisfaction when you create something that didn't exist before, be it an article for a newspaper, a short story or novel or film or TV script.
Ray Connolly
Go and lie in the bath for an hour. I don't know why but always get a page out of that - often a new trackt follow.
Ray Connolly
I'm afraid not, James. The BBC didn't make as much stuff available then commercially. And even if they had done, it would have been too complicated because we used a couple of Beatle records in the play which were covered for playing under the blanket agreement with the BBC, but which meant that the play could only be broadcast in the UK and nowhere else.
Music publishers and record companies guard their product very carefully and every country has to have a special deal with them if they want to use their songs. Trying to get permission for the use of Imagine in a product outside the BBC would have made it commercially impossible.
Another radio play I wrote recently, Sorry, Boys. You Failed The Audition,, ran into the same problem. In the event a Czech version was translated and broadcast, but I can only assume they didn't use any songs, or they have their own blanket agreement for music.
I'm sorry to disappoint you.
Best
Ray Connolly
Music publishers and record companies guard their product very carefully and every country has to have a special deal with them if they want to use their songs. Trying to get permission for the use of Imagine in a product outside the BBC would have made it commercially impossible.
Another radio play I wrote recently, Sorry, Boys. You Failed The Audition,, ran into the same problem. In the event a Czech version was translated and broadcast, but I can only assume they didn't use any songs, or they have their own blanket agreement for music.
I'm sorry to disappoint you.
Best
Ray Connolly
Ray Connolly
Actually, Joe, I wrote the biography on John shortly after his death. But, Yes, there might be another one before too long. Have you read 'Sorry, Boys, You failed The Audition'? I think you might enjoy that. At the moment Iom revising and extending the Ray Connolly Beatles Archive because I want to pubkish it in print later this year. Best Ray
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