Members Only: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Members Only (2010) is writer Paul Willetts's biography of Paul Raymond, the showman who opened the Raymond Revuebar strip club in London's Soho in 1958 and went on to publish men's magazines. Willetts follows Raymond from a working-class childhood in Liverpool through his early career in variety theatre to the property empire he built across Soho, and examines his troubled family life. The book was adapted as the film The Look of Love (2013).
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- Edgar Wright: “Just finished reading 'Members Only' the fascinating book on Paul Raymond by Paul Willets.”