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-- Reviews by the Famous and well Known

Entertaining and mostly accurate.
Su Pollard, Actress

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No Biz like Show Biz. If you love show biz, please put My Hi-De-High Life by Peter Keogh on your must-read list! In this wonderfully entertaining memoir, the author recalls funny and sometimes shocking adventures of his life as a producer, stage manager, prop master, tour guide, dresser, night watchman and usher at various Australian venues. As the world’s most avid movie addict, I particularly enjoyed Keogh’s revealing descriptions of behind-the-scene situations involving so many stars of the Golden Years of Hollywood, including Debbie Reynolds, Carol Burnett, Raymond Burr, Peter O’Toole, Liv Ullman, Eve Arden and more. Although growing up gay in 1950s Australia was no picnic for him, Keogh did more than survive. Even his later unlucky experience during a court case could not bring him down. Although parts of his life have been painful, Keogh revels in his show biz activities. The book comes even more alive when he writes about the stars he’s come in contact with. For example, priceless is the only way to describe how he started out as a Debbie Reynolds fan, became her friend, and then the producer of Irene, her stage production in Australia. Happily, Keogh writes with a breezy, chatty style that helped draw me into his world. It’s a real treat to read a memoir so genuine, amusing and candid as My Hi-De-High Life!
Betty Jo Tucker, Author of 'Confessions of a Movie Addict'

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Peter Keogh's book is sensational reading! He has led a remarkable life and has made many lasting friendships. Peter is loved by so many, including me!
Debbie Reynolds, Actress

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What a great and empowering read. I was racing to the next adventure with a fixed smile of joy and delight in this spirited, brave and loving memoir. This is Peter's "yellow brick road", a lion with courage from the beginning.
Tina Bursill, Actress

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Peter's book is a fun and insightful read. If I had one reservation it's that I'm not in it enough, but living with him for 7 years was a rollercoaster of a ride. To know Peter is to love him.
John Frost, Australian Theatrical Producer

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-- Newspaper and Website Reviews

HI-DE-HI'S SU POLLARD: "I'D RATHER TALK ABOUT CAKES THAN BREXIT!"
* As she hits the stage in a powerful solo show, the frenetic star talks about sexist miners, over-friendly horses – and what really happened at that No 10 drinks party.
Speaking breathlessly between sips of tea, Su Pollard is talking about her stage debut, which took place at the age of six. She was playing one of the Angel Gabriel’s sidekicks in a nativity play and, for some reason, had been made to stand on a cardboard box. “I was telling Mary, ‘Fear not! Angel Gabriel will –’ And then I disappeared into the box. The teacher hadn’t made it strong enough.”
Little Su, demonstrating the professionalism that would come to define her career, climbed out and finished her line: “– be coming to give you a sign.” As the audience howled in delight, she realised that it was her destiny to make people laugh. Or at least so she says, with the advantage of hindsight. There is something very Chumbawamba about Pollard: the woman best known for playing Peggy, the chalet cleaner in the BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!, keeps getting knocked down, but she gets up again. She’s so dogged in her relentless cheerfulness, so unstoppable once she gets going.
Sitting opposite me at a hotel in London’s Covent Garden, Pollard is about to tour the country in one of the few straight roles she has taken on since that debut 64 years ago. Fingers crossed, she won’t be upstaged or injured by the scenery. But it remains a possibility since she is playing an extreme hoarder called Birdie who lives alone in her flat, surrounded by a lifetime’s tat, of which more later.
Hopefully Pollard won’t go all Mrs Malaprop as she did during her professional debut in 1972. Appearing in a musical called The Desert Song, she was supposed to tell John Hanson: “Come one step nearer and I’ll fire!” But instead she said: “Fire one step nearer and I’ll come!” It might have destroyed some careers, but not Pollard’s. She carried on regardless, starring in panto, TV, more musicals and her own one-woman touring show.
Fast-forward two years and she’s in the final of TV talent show Opportunity Knocks, only to be beaten into second place by a dog. The Jack Russell terrier, Pollard recalls, was being held in the arms of a man who sang Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin. At certain notes, the dog would howl in tune. Britain had talent in those days, but not much. One theory about what was going on was advanced by Pollard’s ex-husband Peter Keogh in his memoir My Hi-De-High Life: Before, After and During Su Pollard. Keogh speculated that the dog only howled because, at key moments, the singer put a finger up its backside.
But Pollard reckons her rendition of I’m Just a Girl Who Cain’t Say No (also from Oklahoma!, curiously) failed to win her first place because she had removed her glasses and so sang into a speaker rather than the camera. “Plus the fact that the dog was owned by a headmaster who got his pupils to vote for it. If only I’d sung I Don’t Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar – it might have been a different story.”
Then there was that traumatic incident on the set of Hi-de-Hi! when Pollard was playing the back end of a horse. Unaccountably, there was a real horse on set that took a shine to the fake one’s rear end. “Help! Help!” she could be heard screaming from inside the costume as it tried to mount her.
But perhaps Pollard’s most heroic moment came in 1965 when, aged 15, she played Basford Hall Miners’ Welfare Club in her native Nottingham. She and her three-piece had been making hardy miners sob into their pints with My Way and You Don’t Love Me. When Pollard came off stage, she was asked if she’d like a beer. Which, sensibly, she did.
Then the patriarchy reared its ugly head. “I was at the bar,” she says, “and the chairman came up and said, ‘This is a men-only bar. You can’t drink here.’ I said, ‘This is prehistoric.’ He said, ‘I’m not having it. You can drink over there.’ And he pointed to an area outside. I said, ‘I don’t want to drink there.’ He said, ‘It’s not seemly. You’re sacked.’ I was well peeved.” Understandably – and not just because she’d been earning £35 for two 20-minute slots. “It was in clubs like that where I made my name,” she says. “It never occurred to me to get a solicitor and fight my corner. I was only a girl.”
Today, the 70-year-old is trying to overcome a less expected setback. Last year, it was reported that she attended a drinks party for Tory MPs and their spouses at No 10, as the guest of her friend, the Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell. Under the headline “Hi-de-Hi, Theresa!”, the Mail on Sunday wrote: “Sitcom star Su Pollard causes havoc at Number 10 as she wolf-whistles and berates PM and demands that she speeds up Brexit.”
Guests were reportedly rendered speechless by Pollard’s antics, although someone did manage to blab to the press. “Breaking off a conversation with energy minister Claire Perry,” the report continued, “Mrs May said, ‘Hello there, Su.’ The actress and singer shouted back, ‘Hi-de-Hi, Theresa!’” Pleasantries over, the conversation foundered. “The prime minister is not great at the smalltalk at the best of times, so it looked pretty painful. Su just kept saying, ‘We want Brexit’ and, ‘What’s happening with Brexit, why is it taking so long?’ and, ‘We want Brexit now.’”
Pollard takes a breath. “That’s not what happened at all. What happened was I had a lovely chat with Philip [May’s husband]. I said, ‘I wish someone had my back like you have hers.’ I gave him a big kiss on the cheek. And then we talked about cakes.” Cakes? Not Brexit? “Which would you rather talk about?” Good point.
“I’m not a political person at all,” she says. Actually, that’s not quite right. When Pollard tells me where she lives in London, I ask if she voted for Emily Thornberry, her local Labour MP. She declines to answer but does say: “I really like Emily Thornberry. She’s a strong woman, tough as old boots. I admire that in a woman. She’s continually writing to me, asking if I can help, but I try to be unbiased.”
I take a sidelong look at Pollard and wonder if Thornberry has really thought this through. Today, Pollard is gamely sporting a chain mail-effect jumper she bought from a shop called Utopia in Islington that really sets off her zebra-pattern shoes. “I do dress flamboyantly and I don’t care what anyone thinks,” she says. “Ever since I walked down Chapel Market and someone yelled out, ‘Hi-de-Hi!’ and I yelled back, ‘Ho-de-Ho!’ I’ve not hidden away. Why should I?” More sips of tea. “I could always go out with a bag over my head. People would ask, ‘Who’s that?’ And I’d reply, ‘Mystery Bag. It’s Mystery Bag.’” Don’t do that, Su.
Pollard’s English eccentricity and doughty spirit is no doubt what attracted Philip Meeks to write the role of Birdie for her. “We were in panto together,” she says. “He was the dame and I was the evil queen. He kept saying, ‘I’ve written something with you in mind; will you look at it?’ I finally did and was really touched.”
The play, called Harpy, starts with Pollard singing into a hairbrush while the neighbours bang on the wall. Then we start to realise something’s not quite right. Towers of tat seem poised to tumble on her and yet Birdie negotiates her way through this labyrinth singing, chatting to her fish, conversing with her unseen off-stage social worker and, like a Beckett heroine, keeping up a monologue that suggests her grip on reality is fragile. “What’s that Japanese woman called who sorts out your home?” Marie Kondo. “Marie Condom! Birdie needs Marie Condom.” She giggles as Mrs Malaprop rides again.
“I know Philip was inspired by someone who lived near him. But we all know hoarders, don’t we?” Are you one? “Not as much as Birdie, because I have clear-outs. I remember taking a lovely decanter I’d had for 30 years to a charity shop. It had just sat there unused. And the woman in the shop said, ‘That’s lovely. I’ll have that.’ Can’t blame her.”
Pollard thinks the play is important for the light it throws on attitudes to solitary, often elderly people. “Birdie gets called harpy and harridan and hag. What a way to talk about a woman! It’s about respect and care for the elderly. And also, how we tend to judge people we don’t bother trying to understand. As the play unfolds, we learn that something happened to Birdie when she was younger – I won’t say what. But it’s meant to be both funny and poignant in dramatising mental health.”
Like Birdie, Pollard lives alone. “That’s the only parallel! I’m nothing like her. There is no psychic wound keeping me at home. I’m loving working and I’ll never retire. I feel as though I’m ageless.” She’s also childless. “I’m glad of that. I’ve never wanted grandchildren scampering around the place. I can look after myself, thanks very much.”
* Harpy is at King’s theatre, Portsmouth, 12-13 March. Then touring until 2 May.
The Guardian

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Sound Magazine (Australian Magazine)

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Newspaper Feature - Coastal Times Your Generation (Australian Newspaper)

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Mandurah Coastal Times

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The Roleystone Courier (Australian Magazine)

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BOOK REVIEW QA: MY HI- DE- HIGH LIFE BY PETER KEOGH
MY HI- DE- HIGH LIFE
The name Peter Keogh may not be instantly recognisable to many people but he was married to one of the most popular British comedy actresses of the 1980s, Su Pollard. My Hi-De-High Life documents the story of how an unknown gay drifter from Australia came to live the celebrity life in London and mix with some of the most iconic stars of the time. This autobiography details the abuse in Peter’s early life, his struggle to come to terms with his sexuality, different jobs, his travels, involvement with the theatre, tempestuous relationships and subsequent arrival in London, where he met and married Hi-de-Hi star Su Pollard. In this no holds barred account Peter spills the beans on his life with Su, his arrest and trial for theft, meeting Princess Diana and living the high life with well-known household names of the time. He goes on to document his subsequent divorce from Su, living in America and working with film legend Debbie Reynolds. This book is a fast-paced read about Peter’s rollercoaster ride of a life that you won’t want to put down.
Hush Hush Biz QA with Peter Keogh.
1. In writing the book and with writing of your experiences of what you went through in your early years, has this been a good release as in like a healing for you to write your story?
I have to say that it was a cathartic experience because it was just intended to be a bit of an essay to record some of the amazing events in my life but as I started some memories came flooding back that were so traumatic that I had subconsciously buried them. So by writing about them I was able to face them as an adult and move on! However it still hurts a bit thinking about the abuse in particular but not in a debilitating fashion – I felt freer and I guess healed!
2. If you were given a chance to re live anything is there anything you would change?
Probably not because what happened to me then has made me the strong man I am now. I guess just having a bit more confidence would have been helpful – I was so shy – stammered terribly and would wet my pants in class when called upon to answer a question the answer of which I knew but because I stammered I couldn’t get the words out and was ridiculed!
3. Your time with John Frost sounded like it was a very colourful time for you both. Are you still close.
Colourful is an understatement but he was my first true gay love and as such has a special place in my heart, We used to both be very jealous and often ended up sending plates of food flying across the room at each other plus – as mentioned in the book – in the middle of Sydney Harbour Bridge in peak hour we had a fight so he reached over and pulled out the car keys and left me in the car being abused by every car behind me – I just ducked down and hid on the car floor – dying of embarrassment! We are still very close – John asks us to all of his big events and in fact I am having my 70th birthday in August at his and his partner Shane’s beautiful home in Bayview on the north shore overlooking the beautiful Pittwater.
4. Debbie Reynolds has been a huge in your life. Can you share more on any other things here on meeting her and do you stay in touch still now often?
Yes Debbie was my idol from the age of 12 when I saw her in ‘Tammy’ and wrote a fan letter to her which she answered at length and finally met when she first toured Australia in 1978. She asked me to visit her in Hollywood and we really bonded! Touring with her for over a month was surreal! We never slept – talked about everything because she knew and knows everyone in Hollywood so we had some of the most outrageous chat sessions most nights. She is so funny – never gets up till noon and has so much energy – exhausted me. We stay in touch about once a fortnight!
5. You Life with Su Pollard share one of the funny stories here as to fact getting married or the arrest in your life.
Life with Su was a roller coaster ride! People would say that she was ‘like a bee on speed’! One story not in the book was when she dozed of with a ‘happy’ – shall we say – cigarette in her hand and the curtains in our bedroom went up in flames – fire brigade called and everything including us was soaked – the first thing the fire men asked for afterwards was a photo and an autograph of Su! Also getting married twice was unusual to say the least – the first time was not legal because the minster crossed out the original church on the licence because we had to change churches a few hours before the event – all the details in the book! The arrest for stealing was painful beyond words but a letter from the actress Jill Perryman saying that all will be well because – ‘right is might’ – saved the day and as you know I was cleared of the charges! Jill actually came to my book launch here in Perth.
5. If there is something else you would like to do in this life time what would that be Peter.
To be totally truthful it would have to be that I was in a position financially to be able to not have to work and to be able to see some of the countries I have dreamed about ever since I was a boy – and to do it with my partner Sacha! Places like Venice, Rome, Ireland, Alaska and many others – travel business or even first class and not have to worry about staying in lovely hotels etc. Nice to dream! However the fates decreed that not to be so I just make the most of each day and count my blessings of which there are many!
The book can be purchased at the following places e-book format from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and JB Hi-Fi’s online stores.
Hush Hush Biz: Arts & Entertainment News

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Peter Keogh’s Hi-De-High Life
In his autobiography ‘My Hi-De-High Life: Before, During and After Su Pollard’ Peter Keogh recounts his life story starting off with his early life in Perth and Melbourne and then as a young man discovering his sexuality in Sydney and later Perth.
“Back then you really had to butch it up if you went to a job interview,” said Keogh, “Two could never get a flat together in those days, and you used have to find a handbag – a woman to take along to pretend to be your girlfriend. And once you got the flat you’d still have single beds, never a double bed.”
“It was the best of times for being gay but also the worst of times,” said Keogh reflecting upon gay life in Perth in the 1960’s, “It was such a tight knit group, everyone was close, and everybody knew each other. We always used to meet everywhere, at The Coffee Pot, and at these events which were almost like pretend weddings out at Redcliff Hall, and there was C.A.M.P –the Campaign Against Moral Persecution and people used to hold lots of BBQs – because that’s the only way you could meet up.”
From life in Perth to Australia’s theatre scene in the 70’s to life in London in the 80’s where Keogh married high profile TV star Su Pollard to his later life back in Australia with his long term partner Sach, the book recounts a life filled with star studded experiences and long term friendships.
“Friends kept saying to me, ‘You’ve lived the craziest, weirdest and most interesting life, why don’t you just write it down!”
Peter Keogh’s ‘My Hi-De-High Life: Before, During and After Su Pollard’ is available in e-book format from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and JB Hi-Fi’s online stores.
OUT in Perth Magazine

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NO HI-DING FROM RICH LIFE
HE WORKS IN THE BOX OFFICE BUT HAS KNOWN PLENTY OF BOX OFFICE ROYALTY TOO
Jill Burgess
There are also details of his arrest, prosecution and acquittal for theft in one of the most publicised trials of the day...
THE unassuming and handsome part-time supervisor at Mandurah Performing Arts Centre’s box office has a past both unexpected and surprising.
And all is revealed in his no-holds barred autobiography recently launched at His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth.
My Hi-de-Hi Life, available as an e-book in Australia, is the story of Peter Keogh, born in rural Australia in the 1940s, whose journey has been a hectic and colourful one as he enjoyed life among the rich and famous.
His story also covers a childhood in a deeply religious family, through the realisation he was not quite the same as others in his peer group, coming to grips with the homosexuality that was a no-no in the 1950s and abuse that shaped his later life.
It also follows him through several failed careers before discovering his niche in the theatre.
Keogh worked at the now demolished Playhouse Theatre in Perth before shifting to the Sydney Opera House, where he worked with some of the most iconic Australian and overseas performers of the day and was involved in the first Sydney Mardi Gras.
Later he moved to London and met popular comedian Su Pollard of the celebrated British TV series Hi-de-Hi, whom he later married.
There are also details of his arrest, prosecution and acquittal for theft in one of the most publicised trials of the day that received as much press coverage as the Falklands War.
Keogh returned to Australia, helping stage a range of cabaret and musical productions that culminated in bringing close friend Debbie Reynolds to Australia to star in the musical Irene.
“The girl I first saw on the silver screen in 1952 is now one of my dearest friends,’’ he said.
He was also responsible for putting on supper shows, starring top entertainers back in the 1990s at what was then Edward’s Restaurant on Mandurah Terrace.
Reluctant to retire after such a demanding life, Keogh took on the MPAC box office and now lives in Mandurah with Sacha Mahboub, his partner of 23 years and their three dogs. My Hi-de-Hi Life is an enjoyable page turner, particularly for those old enough to be familiar with the many household names that crowd the pages.
Mandurah Coastal Times (Australian Newspaper)

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Sunday Times (Australian Newspaper)

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The Western Australia

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Q Magazine (Australian Magazine)

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-- Radio and TV

11 December 2013 - Peter Keogh was interviewed on Twin Cities 89.7 FM (Australian Radio Station) talking about his book 'My Hi-de-High Life'.
Twin Cities 89.7 FM (Australian Radio Station)

26 December 2013 - Peter Keogh was interviewed on Talk Radio Europe, talking about his book 'My Hi-de-High Life'. Peter was interviewed by Selina MacKenzie.
Talk Radio Europe

27 December 2013 - Peter Keogh was interviewed on Radio Saltire, talking about his book 'My Hi-de-High Life'. Peter was interviewed by Graeme Logan.
Radio Saltire

11 January 2014 - Peter Keogh was interviewed on Capital Radio 101.7 FM (Australian Radio Station), talking about his book 'My Hi-de-High Life'. (Photos: Peter Keogh being interviewed).
Capital Radio 101.7 FM (Australian Radio Station)

28 January 2014 - Peter Keogh was interviewed on Wolverhampton City Radio 101.8 FM, talking about his book 'My Hi-de-High Life'.
Wolverhampton City Radio 101.8 FM

2 July 2014 - Peter Keogh was interviewed on 89.7 FM (Australian Radio Station). Peter talked about his book 'My Hi-de-High Life'. Peter was interviewed on 'The Sue Myc Show'.
89.7 FM (Australian Radio Station)

19 June 2016 - Peter Keogh was interviewed on Joy 94.9 (Australian Radio Station). Peter answered questions about his book 'My Hi-de-High Life'.
Joy 94.9 (Australian Radio Station)

-- Readers Comments

There are some very sad and scary moments but some wonderful stories to balance that out. Well done Peter Keogh.
Ann Adlem
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Peter's story is respectful and funny. It’s so entertaining and covers the full gamut of emotions - laughter, mirth, sadness, shock, embarrassment, fun, naughtiness and back to laughter. Peter’s honesty comes through in every chapter which makes it a damned good read.
An incredible, interesting, and at times, really sad, book - and how he can remember so much of his earlier years in such accurate detail. Plus how many celebrities, VIP’s, etc. that Peter has met in his life. It is just awesome reading.
Peter has packed enough for three lives into his 69 years and the story is fascinating. His book is a brilliant read, honest, funny and respectful of all those he talks about. It is a major achievement. It is something to be very proud of.
A reader from Australia
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To say I love the book is an understatement, I hung off every word. I just wish it could of gone on and on! A big thanks for your book, it really is special and especially to people like me, that have had our lives touched by Peter Keogh over these past 40 years . Peter has been a very influential person to me over the years.

Stuart Greene
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OMG! I have literally cacked myself with laughter on every page! It’s as if Peter jumped out of the pages and here we were 35 years ago. I know some of the experiences are not so funny but he still has a way of conveying them in a very readable way. I’m truly lost for words. I don’t know how to express my admiration for Peter’s humour and honesty. There are so many levels his book can be read on – even just entertainment value alone, but much, much more.
Robert Fox
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I have just finished reading Peter Keogh’s memoir and am trying to catch my breath. What a whirlwind of a story, oozing with courage, humour, honesty and emotion at every turn. I was both caught up in it and deeply moved in places. A life full to the brim, no brimming over, and with more to come.

John Burbidge
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I wanted to say how proud I am of what Peter Knogh has achieved with his memoir. It's a work in which he has poured his heart, soul and intellect into and it shows. None of us live forever, but he has created something that will live on and how wonderfully powerful it is.
Jan Hallam
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I literally just finished reading it now. I read start to finish in one sitting, took about 4 hours mind but I couldn't stop and just wanted to carry on reading! An absolutely great read and some truly fantastic moments and some saddening tales but all part of Peter’s wonderful memories of an astounding life. My only critique ... it wasn't long enough! (Say what you will) thank you for sharing your journey with us all.
Luke Barker
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A fab book!
Susan Selfe
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A few weeks back I was very kindly given a book, My Hi-De-High Life, by Peter Keogh. I started reading it and by page six I was totally caught up in the life of this fascinating man. Peter works at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre in the Box Office, and never in a million years would I have expected to have fallen in love with another person’s life as much as what I have with his.
He writes with a candour that challenges the reader to be open to accept him and life how it was from his point of view. There is no cut off point; it’s just… as it happened at the time, warts and all (metaphorically speaking).
Peter’s book will make you laugh and feel, it will also shock with the utter bluntness, but I doubt it will offend you (ok maybe occasionally). Although he says it all how it is, he doesn’t dwell for long and before you know it you are off and running again.
Would I read this book again? Yes, I am about to! I felt like I read it as fast as it moved, and now I want to savour what I now know to be brilliantly entertaining writing.
My Hi-De-Hi Life is a true story about the many people Peter met and about what it was like to be homosexual in a time where it wasn't quite the accepted status quo, abuse that he suffered along the way to becoming the man he is today, working within the entertainment industry with some very famous people and marriage to a brilliant performer, but all of it told as if you were sitting with Peter having a glass of wine.
My only criticism is that I didn't want the book to end!
My recommendation to you, read it! This man is warm, loving, crazy, vulnerable and strong, with the guts to write something so refreshingly honest that I know you will feel the same as me.
Karen Francis
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I thought my life was full of many events, but Peter Keogh has reached the heavens.
John Robertson
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The book was fab! Such a great read and an interesting life! The book is very well written! It must have been hard for the author to say he was gay back then.
Emma Leslie
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An amazing story.
Kathlin Brajkovich
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What a wonderful life Peter Keogh has had. My friendship with Peter and his partner Sacha has been fun, lots of it … and the book just said it all. Perfect, everybody should read it.
Alan Wimsett
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I've decided that the Jennifer Saunders book is fairly boring, so I have cast her aside and read Peter Keogh’s book. I am charmed by it and I will certainly recommend it wherever l can. It’s a totally engrossing fascinating read and beautifully written. Open, honest and simple, just talking from the heart. Bravo.
Kev Adams
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It was heartfelt, touching, funny and enjoyable from start to end - I couldn't put it down. What an epic and exciting life Peter Keogh has lead. Peter is a wonderful person who has given to so many people and is loved by all.
Sherry-Anne Cunniffe
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Peter Keogh's autobiography is an easy and most enjoyable read that is refreshing in its candour. His struggle with his homosexuality and the constant awareness of being a disappointment to his father, as well as his great love of anything theatrical, is the basis of his story that is told with great energy and humour.
He succeeds in striking just the right balance between the low points in his rather adventurous life and the headier and more exciting period in London in the 80's when he becomes infamous for being accused of theft by a top London hotel. This stage of his life was also notable for his whirlwind courtship and marriage to one of the UK's biggest TV stars.
Throughout, one gets the impression that it is both Keogh's optimism and unique sense of humour that have enabled him to endure whatever life has thrown his way. And these, together with his evident personal charm and friendliness, are the qualities that have endeared him to the many famous and not so famous people he has met along the way.
Hal S. Davies
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-- Book Signings and Events

3 December 2013 - Peter Keogh's autobiography 'My Hi-De-High Life' was launched in Australia at 'His Majesty's Theatre'. Peter took part in 'An Audience With...' and answered many questions from his friends, family and the national media. (Videos and pictures from the event):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00GhifSIBh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16vKwPTXm28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7WIfzS5Wjk&feature=youtu.be
Book Launch - His Majesty's Theatre, Australia

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19 March 2015 - Peter Keogh took part in a question and answer session at the 'Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Australia'. Peter answered questions about his life, and his book 'My Hi-de-High Life'.
Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Australia

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-- Libraries that stock this book
The British Library, Boston Spa
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The Bodleian Library, Oxford
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The Library of Trinity College, Dublin
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The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
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The University Library, Cambridge
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The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
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