Michael Ball: The Biography

by Willie Robertson

Michael Ball is more than a Laurence Olivier Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist; he holds the unique status of being Britain's foremost musical theatre actor. This book tells his story.

322 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

A writer who has been a Fleet Street journalist for more than 30 years, holding a number of executive editorial positions including being show business Editor on the Daily Mirror.

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very superficial biography- the author seems to have gleaned most of his material from weekly womens magazines. The sort of information you could probably gain from reading his wikipedia page. - love autobiographies and this was one of the kindle 12 days offers- but could quite happily have missed it!

[rosemary bell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely and talented

A very interesting man who has no heir graces
Came from humble back ground. He is happy with his lot

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Michael Ball is a modern stage legend; his amazing acting ability and vocal prowess have earned him millions of endearing fans, more so in the UK than in the United States. Despite not exactly being his target audience, I consider myself a fan of his, as I enjoy listening to most of his songs. This biography collects details of his life and personal quotations from Mr. Ball himself; it tells of his triumphs and his failures, his happy times and his sad times. Some of it was a bit unsettling, but, as a whole, I thought this was a great portrait of the stage actor. If you've mostly only listened to his music, as I have, there's likely plenty here you don't already know!

[Pat Stearman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Genuine pot-boiler - cobbled together from newspaper and magazine articles and TV interviews. There are a couple of errors too.
Unofficial biographies can give us an insight that an official biography or indeed an autobiography don't, but this doesn't even pretend to any original research - waste of time really.
Would never have bought it, but it fell into my hands at work so I gave it a go.

[Readsandeats · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyed this biography.
Michael Ball is one of my favourite singer and this book gave more information about his life.
It was written sensitively and with compassion for all that Michael has been through.

Definitely a book for those who love musical theatre and Michael Ball both as an artist and a person.

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Love Michael Ball but didn't finish it. Much prefer autobiographies, hate all the quotes in biographies, found it boring.