Bruce Dessau
Bio
Bruce specialises in music, TV and comedy. He writes for The London Evening Standard and is the author of biographies of numerous major figures, including George Michael and Rowan Atkinson. His latest book is Beyond A Joke: Inside The Dark World of Stand-Up Comedy (Random House). He is also the editor of comedy website beyondthejoke.co.uk
Articles By Bruce Dessau
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Album: Melanie C - Melanie C
There’s a lot to like about Melanie Chisholm. She was always the Spice Girl who came over as most genuine and down to earth – not to mention the...
Album: Melanie C - Melanie C
There’s a lot to like about Melanie Chisholm. She was always the Spice Girl who came over as most genuine and down to earth – not to mention the...
Bach’s The Art of Fugue, Angela Hewitt, Wigmore Hall – the m...
How do they do it? Bach and Angela Hewitt, I mean, transfixing and...
Bob Woodward: Rage review - terror and tyranny in the White...
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Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands review - a case of murd...
Death in Her Hands was a forgotten manuscript, the product of a...
Sudhir Hazareesingh: Black Spartacus review – the life, and...
The former slave, and coachman on a sugar plantation, began one of his early public proclamations in a typically defiant vein: “I am Toussaint...
Ian Williams: Reproduction review - a dazzling kaleidoscope...
Ian Williams’s writing is always in motion. For his 2012 poetry...
Academy of St Martin in the Fields review - from solo medita...
Clearly it takes peculiar circumstances for some of us to hear the Academy of St Martin in the Fields within its eponymous church – that’s a first...
Emma Cline: Daddy review - scintillating short stories by th...
The Girls, Emma Cline’s acclaimed debut novel of 2016, was billed as a story based on the Manson murders. But in fact, like some of the...