How to sum up Jonathan Adams' autobiography in five words......
"I wish I'd met him".

Artist, Actor and Humorist Jonathan Adams is best known to most The Rocky Horror Picture Show fans as Scotty (Dr. Scott). However, to those that are more than just a casual fan we also know he was the original Narrator for The Rocky Horror Show.

Collage of a Life is a wonderful journey through the life of a great man. There is something about Jonathan's style of writing that holds the readers attention, I swear at one stage I could hear his voice reading the words from the page. I read the book in one go.

His descriptions of his involvement with The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show offer some fresh insights to those early days, and it's easy to see he loved the whole experience and the fact he was part of a cult show and film. The book contains several quotes from the show itself. His description of attending the US convention many years ago is particularly interesting and confirms a few rumours I'd heard myself over the years.

Alas Jonathan is no longer with us, he died on 13th June 2005 but he lives on in our hearts and imortalised on screen as Dr Scott in our favourite movie. For the last eight years of his life he suffered from Parkinson's disease and was sadly unable to attend any of the UK conventions. An exhibition of some of his artworks did take place at the Denton Affair convention and there was a major exhibition of his work from 2nd February to 6th March 2008 in Northampton.

Every Rocky fan should own this book.

Format - 200 x 130 mm
14 pages of photographs/paintings plus lots of sketch style illustrations
Paperback
144 pages

ISBN 978 1 85794 302 3 - Silver Link Publishing Ltd (2008)

RRP £7.99 - Amazon Price at Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 £6:39

Synopsis from Amazon.co.uk
From the late 1950's, Jonathan Adams developed his talent as a surrealist artist at the Chelsea School of Art and, while studying there, sang his own songs in college shows. Later, during National Service in Penang, he painted, sketched, composed songs and put on weekly radio shows. At that time he wrote to his father that his head was 'crammed full of all kinds of things: acting, piano playing, singing, painting and writing - I want to do everything.' And it is this eclecticism that pervades his memoirs, which are, as the title suggests, an embriodered, heightened, dramatised collage of memories, impressions and anecdotes, shot through with a surrealism that also found expression in his art.