Generous, up for a laugh, scathing about Liverpool FC and an impeccable broadcaster - there will never be another like Michael Parkinson
My friend Michael Parkinson was pure joy – even if he did sulk when I got a CBE first
We were born in the same year, on different sides of the Pennines, both from working class families and brought up to “pass the scholarship.” This, our parents believed, would move us up and away from the shadow of “the dole.” As it did. I didn’t actually meet Michael Parkinson until he was seriously famous. We got on.
, then at Granada Television in Manchester in the days when its journalistic fiefdom spread far beyond the north. And, in between those two stages of his young life, there was National Service, two years of spotting how to use the system rather than moan about it.in 1958, working in the newsroom in Manchester his contemporaries included Michael Frayn and Anthony Howard . Parky was degreeless and married.
Fashion designer Mary Quant and hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, , with Michael Parkinson in September 1972
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