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 & TV releases by the Rock Gods, The Beatles and Queen (his last being their official 2011 documentary Queen: Days Of Their Lives), been enlisted for archive assistance by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Rhino and VH-1 and is responsible (or partly so) 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 that elusive 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 was his last case, you ask? The mysterious death of screen legend, Marilyn Monroe is the answer. For many years he'd hunted down and studied practically every piece of surviving information about her demise. The result? He was able to finally answer the almost five-decade old question of how exactly the actress died.

The Final Years Of Marilyn Monroe: The Amazing True Story, was released last September and reached the No.1 position on three Amazon.co.uk books charts. Its long-awaited American release takes place in July 2012 (courtesy St. Martin's Press).


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