11th November 2019

I’M not one to gossip but…………........................I have just read an amazing book called “The Show Won’t Go On” by Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns, and trust me there has never been a show business book quite like this one. To my knowledge this is the first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon: performers who died onstage.

Throughout the 224 pages it covers almost every genre of entertainment, and is full of unearthed anecdotes, exclusive interviews, extremely colourful characters, and ironic twists thrown into the mix. Not to mention heart-stopping stories, thrown in for good measurement. What’s also nice about this well produced book, is there is a photo section in the book of many of the people they talk about. Jeff and Burt have done an amazing amount of researching for their book, including a story on a magic act that not even the person who runs the New Zealand’s magician’s archives knew about. You can see the cutting below. Their account of this little unknown fact is absolutely true.