Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Caught in or Courting The Spotlight?
Chapter 2
The View from Thayer Street
Chapter 3
Life Chances and the Nearly Man
Chapter 4
Getting Started
Chapter 5
Origin of Stories
Chapter 6
Pivotal Role Of Media In Creating Celebrity
Chapter 7
George Best & Stanley Matthews as Superstars
Chapter 8
Three Working Class Lads
Chapter 9
Motivationally Speaking…
Chapter 10
It’s A lottery
Chapter 11
Cultural Differences
Chapter 12
Entertaining Our Troops
Chapter 13
Working In the Corporate Market:
Some elementary facts
Chapter 14
Still Nervous After All These Years
Chapter 15
Calculating Market Values
Chapter 16
FOIBLES
Chapter 17
The World’s Nicest Man
Chapter 18
All Change
Chapter 19
Celebrities At Work
Chapter 20
More Examples of Celebrities at Work
Chapter 21
Whither the cult of Celebrity?
Chapter 22
Tale End
Index
About the Author

About the Author

Stanley Jackson was born in Epsom Surrey. His early years were spent in a council prefab but he joined the middle classes in 1966 when he married Iris and acquired the first in a series of unaffordable mortgages. He set up Performing Artistes in 1992 after a successful career in financial services. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Howard Stubbs, was involved in shipping horses to France in the Great War; an heroic activity given brilliant theatrical expression in the award winning stage play “Warhorse”, adapted from Michael Morpurgo’s book and now a major Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg. Stanley Jackson and Michael Morpurgo were both guests of Libby Purves on BBC Radio 4’s “Midweek” programme on 19 October 2010.

Reviews

I knew I would like Stanley from the moment we fi rst met. He reminded me of two of my all time heroes rolled into one … Charles Darwin … and … Captain Birdseye!
*Jo Brand, comedienne, speaking the launch of the hardback version in September 2011*

A brief note to say how much I enjoyed your stories, forthright opinions and lovely touches, dare I say, of whimsy, which together made up a wonderful holiday read in Florida
*Barry Davies, BBC Sports Commentator*

Thanks for all your excellent advice over the years and, as for your book, wow, what a wonderful read - a real page-turner!
*Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham*