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       with thanks to Mike Dalton and Anne-Marie Trace | Welcome to the official Keith Badman siteLatest NewsSeptember 2008 Research on Keith's Marilyn project rolls on. Clearing up 46 years of unfair bull**** about the great lady has proved to be one most enjoyable task. Amazing to think that so much of what we believe about the actress's final months never actually happened! (The release date of the book, 'Marilyn Monroe: Her Final Months, As It Was, As It Happened' is still set for November 09.) Thanks to everyone who remarked how much they enjoyed Keith's video show at the Liverpool Beatles Convention last month. The worldwide premiere screening of the new 'Magical Mystery Tour Memories' documentary was well-received also. Great seeing so many old friends and, of course, Keith's wonderful web-mistress, Anne Marie. Fancy reading about The Clash's 1979 appearance on the classic ITV pop show, Alright Now or Ringo's brief slot on a 1970 edition of Frost On Sunday, then check out the latest editions of Record Collector. July 2008 Latest update from Keith - "My highly exhaustive Marilyn Monroe research rolls. Amazing to think that, 46 years after her death there is still new info about her waiting to be uncovered! Special thanks this month goes to Bob Boyer, who has been another star for me on the project out in America. His input and help is greatly appreciated.
The television / DVD documentary, The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour Memories, on which Keith was a consultant is going to be screened in by him in Liverpool next month at the massive 6-day Beatles Convention. Special guests should be in attendance at the showing. Watch this space."  "Marilyn Monroe: Her Final Months, As It Was; As It Happened" Keith is very pleased to announce that he has signed a deal with JR Books to publish the aforementioned title. A release date has been set for Autumn 2009. Keith would also like to thank his new agent, Robert Kirby at United Agents for handling the deal. May/June 2008 New Book Update: Keith's highly exhaustive Marilyn Monroe research is progessing wonderfully. Special thanks this time must go to Mitch Ison for handling one aspect of the research out in the States. He really cannot be thanked enough. Watch this space for more news on the project, which is set to appear in late 2009. Record Collector articles continue to come. Catch the latest issues for in-depth pieces of Burt Bacharach's 1965 Granada TV special and the 1972 London Weekend Television series Two Gs And The Pop People. Thanks to John Nolan and Richard Higgins at ITN Source for their invaluable help with these. Concerts that Keith has been seen at recently include The Zombies, Yardbirds, Chas & Dave and Buzzcock Steve Diggle. The latter is a true star! Catch his show if you can. You won't be disappointed. Keep a look out for the documentary, Beatles Magical Mystery Memories. Keith has seen an incomplete 34-minute edit of the show and it looks absolutely superb! March 2008 "Extensive Marilyn Monroe research continues: Keith would like to once again thank the wonderful staffs at the Colindale Newspaper Library, the British Film Institute, the BBC Written Archives Centre and The Washington Post for assisting him with his project. Many thanks to you all." "Keith's archive TV examinations continue in Record Collector. His piece on the 70s television favourite Lift Off With Ayshea features in the current edition. Thanks to everyone who replied to my request for current information about the show's host, Ayshea Brough." "Keith was a guest contributor on several radio stations on Monday (March 17). Beatles expert, Mr. Badman was on hand to give his view on Sir Paul McCartney's rather messy divorce from Miss Mills." January 2008 Keith would like to wish all the visitors to this site all the very best for 2008! Keith has been a consultant on a new and rather exciting unofficial documentary about Magical Mystery Tour. This is going to be rather special so watch this space for further news and check out the website here! Thanks for everyone who sent in information re the current activities of 1970s TV host / star and singer, Ayshea Brough. Record Collector update: Keith's examination of the footage taken at the 1968 Melody Maker Awards and the Lulu According To Freud ITV special from that same year are featured in the issues dated February and March respectively. And thanks very much indeed to this individual who thinks that the words of Keith Badman are worthy enough of a page here! The individual clearly has taste! December 2007 Keith's examination of the amazing Granada TV footage shot on the day when The Beatles paid a surprise visit to their studios in October 1964 has finally been published. You can read it in the Christmas edition of Record Collector magazine. Expect a bundle of further archive-related features by Keith throughout 2008 in the mag. And if you don't currently subscribe to this superb publication, why not? It's a damn good read, if I say so myself. Anyone know of the current whereabouts of Ayshea Brough, the host of the 1970s pop-music show, Lift Off With Ayshea and former girlfriend of singer, Roy Wood? Keith is currently doing a piece about the host and series and would dearly love to bring the article up-to-date with news of her current activities. Mr. Badman would love to thank the Marilyn Monroe collector, Syd Stanwell for allowing him unlimited access to his most amazing private collection of the actress. Thanks Syd! As you can guess, Keith's ongoing Monroe research is progressing very nicely indeed! November 2007 Thanks to everyone who's asked about how Keith's Marilyn Monroe research is going. Well, I'm pleased to say, it's going very well indeed. "I'm staggered by the amount of 'new' information relating to the actress I'm uncovering," Keith remarked this week. "I firmly believe my new discoveries will re-write many key parts of her final months." As it stands, an Autumn 2009 release date is the most likely. A big thank you also goes to Record Collector's Jason Draper who reviewed Keith's recently re-issued Off The Record. "This is truly one Beatles book you need," he wonderfully wrote. A perfect Christmas present, don't you think? Amongst Keith's latest assigments is an affectionate look back at the controversial Channel 4 1990s music series, The Word. If by chance you were in the studio audience at any programme or have an interesting tale to tell about the series, please get in touch. Thanks! September 2007 The latest issue of Record Collector magazine (October 2007) features Keith's full-page examination of the surviving outtakes from the 1969 Granada TV production, The Stones In The Park Update: The alleged Wendy Richard outtakes on the new Apple / EMI Help! DVD - Contrary to the rumours which are spreading prior to the release of this highly-anticipated DVD, I can assure everyone that we do not actually see any of Richard's un-used filmed sequences on the discs. Instead we get newly-recorded interviews with Wendy and director Richard Lester, alongside very nice stills taken during the shooting. In truth (and obviously not touched upon in this DVD), back in 1965 as Help! was undergoing final editing, some of the movie's discarded footage was being smuggled out of the studios by one of the film's workers and given to his young, Beatle-mad daughter." (Note: The official release date of the Help! DVD has now been put back to November 5.) Keith filed this report after attending the HELP! DVD Press Screening in London - "This newly-remastered copy of The Beatles' 1965 movie is just superb! You'll be hard pushed to find a copy as good as this. The re-mastering has clearly worked; colours are bright, images are pin-sharp and The Fabs' wonderful music (as featured on the American DVD release of the movie) is presented in superb stereo / 5.1 Surround Sound. You'll love it. Sadly, at the screening, we didn't get to see the 'new' Wendy Richards outtakes (possibly an Apple decision) but I was promised these clips are GENUINE HELP! MOVIE OUTTAKES and not just a collection of stills." (Thanks to Peter at MBC. The Help! DVD hits the UK stores on October 29.) Keith's new book, The Beatles Off the Record: Outrageous Opinions & Unreleased Interviews hits the shelves this Friday, September 14. He thanks one reviewer on Amazon who described the book as "A massive undertaking," before adding, "The Beatles Off The Record is a unique, essential, core title for all dedicated Beatles fans and reveals these four young men from Liverpool as no other book ever has -- or could!" August 2007 Keith would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has visited the site since its official launch in early August, and there's been over a thousand of you! Following a highly-successful meeting with ITN Source supremos Ross Landau and John Nolan, Keith is pleased to announce his ITN Source-supported, archive themed, Record Collector series, Rockin' The Box will continue for another year (to the end of 2008). The first period of the article has already produced pieces on Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, Deep Purple, Slade, Badfinger and Tommy Steele amongst others. Sunday, August 26 - Keith will be presenting the video show at the 2007 Liverpool Beatles Convention Monday, August 27 - Keith will be a guest on Spencer Leigh's BBC Radio Merseyside show talking about the re-issue of his book, The Beatles: Off The Record and discussing how research is going on his current project, Marilyn Monroe: Her Final Months; As It Was, As It Happened. July 2007
The Beatles Off The Record will be reissued in September with a brand spanking new cover. Keith is currently working on a book about Marilyn Monroe covering the final nine months of her life and totally re-examining the way she died. "With respect to previous authors, this will be the most definitive scrutiny of this period of her life ever undertaken by any researcher. The resulting work will, in my opinion, prove conclusively the manner in which she died, and end over four decades of speculation." Click here for Keith's statement on whether Marilyn had an affair with John F Kennedy. |
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