Spike Milligan

Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a comedian, writer and actor. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, his early life was spent in India where he was born. The majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He disliked his first name and began to call himself "Spike" after hearing a band on Radio Luxembourg called Spike Jones and his City Slickers.

Links To Peel
Peel was generally a fan of Milligan's comedy work, especially The World Of Beachcombe, recommended to watch on BBC2 by himself on his 04 February 1968 show. Peel according to Margrave Of The Marshes met Spike Milligan describing not liking him:


 * "Spike Milligan I did once meet, when I stood in for a guest who had failed to appear for a programme on the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS). I didn't like him at all. For a start, Milligan seemed to have no interest in anyone other than himseelf and seemed to regard me as some sort of threat, which I most certainly was not. I had been rather excited at the unexpected opportunity of meeting him and was disconcerted when he chose to attempt to obliterate any of the drab answers I was givig to the drab questions I, as a stand-in, was being asked, by making hilarious Goon-type noises until the presenter turned back to him."