About Keith


Keith Badman is an author, journalist and archive film & video researcher. A long-time columnist for Record Collector magazine, he has assisted in footage searches for DVD releases by the Rock Gods, Queen and The Beatles, been enlisted for archive assistance by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Rhino and VH-1 and is responsible (or partly responsible) for ten music books. The subjects of these range from The Beatles and The Beach Boys to The Rolling Stones and Small Faces. Self-employed in the publishing / music / entertainment industry for over two decades now, Keith has built a strong reputation on his incisive, in-depth, groundbreaking research. If you're looking for lost film footage or trying to solve a baffling entertainment-related mystery, he is your man. He didn't obtain the "Columbo of the entertainment world" tag for nothing, you know!

What's his latest case, you ask? The mysterious death of screen legend, Marilyn Monroe is the answer. For many years he's hunted down and studied practically every piece of surviving information about her demise and now he feels he's ready to finally answer the four-decade old question of how exactly the actress died.

Away from his laptop, family and friends, Keith still finds time to play the drums, listen to music by The Beatles, Beach Boys, Byrds, Monkees and Queen (as he insists, still the greatest bands the world has ever seen), hunt down lost Top Of The Pops clips, sample another Chicken Curry, have a Lager Shandy, watch documentary, political debate or comedy programmes (in particular Larry David's superb Curb Your Enthusiasm) and delight once again in the sheer brilliance of 2001: A Space Odyssey (as he says, still the greatest film ever made)...



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