From Billy's troubled childhood in Liverpool, via gold and silver lam to his later years as a farming ornithologist and a comeback cut short by his premature death, David and Caroline Stafford's...

David and Caroline Stafford have collaborated on scores of dramas, documentaries, and comedy series for radio and TV over the years, as well as writing biographies of Randy Newman, Adam Faith, and Kenny Everett. Their first book together, Fings Aint Wot They Used T'Be, was chosen as BBC Radio 4's Book of The Week, nominated for a Sheridan Morley Award, and adapted for the BBC4 television documentary, Reviewing The Situation.