George Melly, English singer-songwriter and critic (born 1926)

George Melly

English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer, and lecturer (1926–2007)

Alan George Heywood Melly was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer, and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973, he was a film and television critic for The Observer; he also lectured on art history, with an emphasis on surrealism.