Looking Back
2
November
1952
Laura Milligan was born. June became sick and Spike was working on the third series of the Goons. He developed insomnia. Of this period, Spike said: “I was seen by a stupid doctor who kept giving me sleeping pills – you name ‘em. I’ve taken ‘em.” And “I was writing the third series of the Goon Shows when I finally broke down. The madness built up gradually. I found I was disliking more and more people. Then I got to hating them. Even my wife and baby. And then there were the noises. Ordinary noises were magnified in my brain until they sounded a hundred timed as loud as they were, screaming and roaring in my head. Finally I thought, they are letting me go insane. I must do something desperate so they will put me in hospital and cure me. I know what I’ll do. I’ll kill Peter Sellers.”
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