Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings (45 page)

Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
by Victoria Glendinning (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1981)

17) Evelyn Waugh + Igor Stravinsky 1949

Stravinsky: The Second Exile – France and America 1934–1971
by Stephen Walsh (Jonathan Cape 2006)

Tom Driberg in the
Observer
magazine May 20th 1973

I Once Met
...
Chance Encounters with the Famous and Infamous from the Pages of the Oldie
(Oldie Publications 2008)

Memories and Glimpses
by A.L. Rowse (Methuen 1986)

Dialogues
by Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft (University of California Press 1982)

‘The Only Member of his Club’ by Penelope Fitzgerald,
New York Times
September 13th 1992

‘Yours affec: Evelyn’, essay by Ann Fleming in
Evelyn Waugh and his World
edited by David Pryce-Jones (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1973)

Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour
by Frances Donaldson (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1967)

18) Igor Stravinsky + Walt Disney 1939

New York Times
January 14th 1990

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
by Otto Friedrich (Headline 1987)

Walt Disney: The Biography
by Neal Gabler (Aurum 2006)

Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents
by Vera Stravinsky and Robert Craft (Hutchinson 1979)

Stravinsky: The Second Exile – France and America 1934–1971
by Stephen Walsh (Jonathan Cape 2006)

19) Walt Disney + P.L. Travers 1964

Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P.L. Travers
by Valerie Lawson (Aurum 1999)

Walt Disney: The Biography
by Neal Gabler (Aurum 2006)

20) P.L. Travers + George Ivanovich Gurdjieff 1949

Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P.L. Travers
by Valerie Lawson (Aurum 1999)

Gurdjieff: The Anatomy of a Myth
by James Moore (Element Books 1991)

Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus
by Anthony Storr (HarperCollins 1997)

21) George Ivanovich Gurdjieff + Frank Lloyd Wright 1934

Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
by Meryle Secrest (Chatto and Windus 1992)

Gurdjieff: The Anatomy of a Myth
by James Moore (Element Books 1991)

Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright
by Brendan Gill (Heinemann 1988)

‘Gurdjieff at Taliesin’ by Frank Lloyd Wright, article in the
Capitol Times
, Madison, Wisconsin, August 26th 1934

22) Frank Lloyd Wright + Marilyn Monroe 1957

‘Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture Design Style’ by Robert Green,
Wall Street Journal
April 19th 2007

Timebends
by Arthur Miller (Methuen 1988)

The Genius and the Goddess
by Jeffrey Meyers (Hutchinson 2009)

Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright
by Brendan Gill (Heinemann 1988)

23) Marilyn Monroe + Nikita Khrushchev 1959

K Blows Top
by Peter Carlson (Public Affairs Books 2010)

Timebends
by Arthur Miller (Methuen 1988)

The Genius and the Goddess
by Jeffrey Meyers (Hutchinson 2009)

Monroe Confidential
by Lena Pepitone and William Stadiem (Pocket Books 1980)

Spectator
July 3rd 2010

24) Nikita Khrushchev + George Brown 1956

Khrushchev: A Political Life
by William Thomson (St Martin’s Press 1995)

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
by William Taubman (W.W. Norton 2003)

Tired and Emotional: The Life of Lord George Brown
by Peter Paterson (Chatto and Windus 1993)

In My Way
by George Brown (Victor Gollancz 1971)

The Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicolson, Volume III: The Later Years, 1945–1962
edited by Nigel Nicolson (Atheneum 1968)

The Labour Government, 1964–70: A Personal Record
by Harold Wilson (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1971)

The Macmillan Diaries, Volume II
edited by Peter Catterall (Macmillan 2011)

25) George Brown + Eli Wallach 1963

Tired and Emotional: The Life of Lord George Brown
by Peter Paterson (Chatto and Windus 1993)

The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister
by Richard Crossman (Hamish Hamilton 1978)

1963: Five Hundred Days
by John Lawton (Hodder and Stoughton 1992)

In My Way
by George Brown (Victor Gollancz 1971)

26) Eli Wallach + Frank Sinatra 1974

The Good, the Bad and Me: In My Anecdotage
by Eli Wallach (Harcourt 2005)

‘The Godfather Wars’ by Mark Seal,
Vanity Fair
March 2009

Sinatra: The Life
by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (Doubleday 2005)

His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra
by Kitty Kelley (Bantam Press 1986)

Eli Wallach in conversation with Niall Macpherson, National Film Theatre, October 10th 2007 (BFI archive)

Letter from Victor Gold,
Vanity Fair
May 2009

27) Frank Sinatra + Dominick Dunne 1966

Dominick Dunne: After the Party
(documentary DVD)

New York Daily News

Sinatra: The Life
by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (Doubleday 2005)

Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend
by Stephen Davis (Gotham 2004)

28) Dominick Dunne + Phil Spector 2007

Various articles by Dominick Dunne,
Vanity Fair

Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector
by Mick Brown (Bloomsbury 2007)

29) Phil Spector + Leonard Cohen 1977

Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector
by Mick Brown (Bloomsbury 2007)

Awopbopaloobop, Alopbamboom
by Nik Cohn (Paladin 1970)

BBC News website

Guardian

30) Leonard Cohen + Janis Joplin 1967

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen
by Ira B. Nadel (Bloomsbury 1996)

Leonard Cohen
by Stephen Scobie (Douglas and MacIntyre 1978)

At the Chelsea
by Florence Turner (Hamish Hamilton 1986)

Love, Janis
by Laura Joplin (Villard 1992)

Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
by Alice Echols (Virago 1999)

Going Down with Janis
by Peggy Caserta (Dell 1974)

Leonardcohenfiles.com

Songwriters on Songwriting
by Paul Zollo (Da Capo Press 1997)

31) Janis Joplin + Patti Smith 1970

Just Kids
by Patti Smith (Bloomsbury 2010)

At the Chelsea
by Florence Turner (Hamish Hamilton 1986)

Interview with Patti Smith by Jeffrey Brown, PBS
Newshour
December 2010

32) Patti Smith + Allen Ginsberg 1969

Ginsberg: A Biography
by Barry Miles (Viking 1989)

Just Kids
by Patti Smith (Bloomsbury 2010)

Obituary of Allen Ginsberg by James Campbell,
Independent
April 7th 1997

Obituary of Allen Ginsberg,
Daily Telegraph
April 7th 1997

33) Allen Ginsberg + Francis Bacon 1957

Profile of Francis Bacon
, BBC
Arena
1986

‘Bacon Agonistes’ by John Richardson,
New York Review of Books
December 17th 2009

Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma
by Michael Peppiatt (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1998)

The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon
by Daniel Farson (Century 1993)

Ginsberg: A Biography
by Barry Miles (Viking 1989)

Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William Burroughs
by Ted Morgan (Bodley Head 1991)

The Penguin Book of the Beats
edited by Ann Charters (Penguin 1992)

34) Francis Bacon + HRH Princess Margaret 1977

The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor
by A.N. Wilson (Sinclair-Stevenson 1993)

The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon
by Daniel Farson (Century 1993)

Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled
by Tim Heald (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2007)

Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts
by Christopher Warwick (André Deutsch 2000)

Adventures of a Gentleman’s Gentleman
by Guy Hunting (John Blake 2002)

Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud
by Martin Gayford (Thames and Hudson 2010)

‘Francis Bacon 1909–1992’ by Caroline Blackwood,
New York Review of Books
September 24th 1992

35) HRH Princess Margaret + Kenneth Tynan 1968

The Life of Kenneth Tynan
by Kathleen Tynan (Phoenix 1988)

Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled
by Tim Heald (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2007)

Palimpsest: A Memoir
by Gore Vidal (André Deutsch 1995)

The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
edited by John Lahr (Bloomsbury 2001)

The Sixties: Diaries, Volume II, 1960–1969
by Christopher Isherwood edited and introduced by Katherine Bucknell (Chatto and Windus 2010)

36) Kenneth Tynan + Truman Capote 1970

The Life of Kenneth Tynan
by Kathleen Tynan (Phoenix 1988)

Capote: A Biography
by Gerald Clarke (Hamish Hamilton 1988)

The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
edited by John Lahr (Bloomsbury 2001)

Truman Capote
by George Plimpton (Picador 1998)

Shadow Box
by George Plimpton (Simon and Schuster 1989)

37) Truman Capote + Peggy Lee 1979

Capote: A Biography
by Gerald Clarke (Hamish Hamilton 1988)

Truman Capote
by George Plimpton (Picador 1998)

Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee
by Peter Richmond (Henry Holt 2006)

The Paris Review Interviews, Volume I
(Canongate 2007)

38) Peggy Lee + President Richard M. Nixon 1970

‘Peggy Lee’s Back on Top – Is that All There is?’by Judy Klemesrud,
New York Times
April 26th 1970

‘Dead Silence on Human Rights’ by Hugh Sidey,
Life
magazine March 26th 1970

Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee
by Peter Richmond (Henry Holt 2006)

The Reagan Diaries
edited by Douglas Brinkley (HarperCollins 2007)

Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen
by Jimmy McDonough (Simon and Schuster 2010)

39) President Richard M. Nixon + Elvis Presley 1970

Elvis
by Bobbie Ann Mason (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)

Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown 1999)

The Day Elvis Met Nixon
by Egil ‘Bud’ Krogh (Pejama Press 1994)

Groucho
by Stefan Kanfer (Allen Lane 2000)

Getting High: The History of LSD
, History Channel documentary, interview with Grace Slick

40) Elvis Presley + Paul McCartney 1965

Elvis
by Bobbie Ann Mason (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)

John Lennon: The Life
by Philip Norman (HarperCollins 2008)

Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown 1999)

Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America
by Jonathan Gould (Portrait Books 2007)

The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles
by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines (Macmillan 1983)

The Beatles: A Day in the Life
compiled by Tom Schultheiss (Omnibus 1980)

The Beatles Anthology
, DVD

41) Paul McCartney + Noël Coward 1965

The Faber Book of Pop
edited by Hanif Kureishi and Jon Savage (Faber and Faber 1995)

The Orton Diaries
edited by John Lahr (Methuen 1986)

The Letters of Noël Coward
edited by Barry Day (Methuen 2007)

The Noël Coward Diaries
edited by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley (Da Capo Press 2000)

Noël Coward
by Philip Hoare (Chatto and Windus 1995)

Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
(Secker and Warburg 1997)

John Lennon: The Life
by Philip Norman (HarperCollins 2008)

The Beatles: A Day in the Life
compiled by Tom Schultheiss (Omnibus 1980)

42) Noël Coward + Prince Felix Youssoupoff 1946

The Noël Coward Diaries
edited by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley (Da Capo Press 2000)

The Life of Noël Coward
by Cole Lesley (Jonathan Cape 1976)

The Murder of Rasputin
by Greg King (Century 1996)

The Duff Cooper Diaries
edited and introduced by John Julius Norwich (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2005)

43) Prince Felix Youssoupoff + Grigori Rasputin 1916

The Murder of Rasputin
by Greg King (Century 1996)

The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin
by Alex de Jonge (Collins 1992)

Rasputin: His Malignant Influence and his Assassination
by Prince Youssoupoff (Jonathan Cape 1927)