George Melly
Sign in to saveEnglish jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer (1926–2007)
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- Born
- 1926
- Died
- 2007
- Works
- 20
Top works
- I, Flook
- I remember
- Slowing down
- A child of six could do it!
- Alan Stocker
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Alan George Heywood Melly (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English jazz and blues singer and writer. From 1965–1973 he was a film and television critic for The Observer. He also lectured on art history, with an emphasis on Surrealism. His singing style, particularly for the blues, was strongly influenced by his idol, the American Blues singer Bessie Smith. While many British musicians of the time treated jazz and blues with almost religious solemnity <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Geor
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,642x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 47,757x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,019x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 26,920x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 22,997x
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to George Melly, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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