Welcome To David Bret
David Bret
Biographer-Broadcaster-Raconteur-Scriptwriter Profiler & Chansonnier
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http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/1494
The Official Home Office Public Enquiry Into Unanswered Questions Regarding The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Created by profiler David Bret and officially sanctioned by H.M. Government. Completely non-accusatory, as will be seen upon perusal.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/18950
Keith Bennett is the only one of the Moors Murderers' victims who has never been found. This Official Home Office petition is raised in the hope that his mother, Winnie Johnson, might find her little boy and lay him properly to rest.
25 November marks the 20th anniversary of Freddie's death. To commemorate the occasion, David Bret is releasing the updated edition of the biography, with an introduction by Freddie's close friend the great soprano, Montserrat Caballe.
"David Bret may be 'a little shit', but I've seen his books and to me he's a loveable shit!" Elizabeth Taylor, upon hearing of the mutual loathing between Bret and those fan forums.
Popular with the "trade" David Bret counts/counted amongst his friends, allies and admirers: Marlene Dietrich, Barbara (Monique Serf), Dorothy Squires, Betty Mars, Roger Normand (his godfather), Jacqueline Danno (his godmother), Michel Guyarmathy, Montserrat Caballé, Melina Mercouri, Sheridan Morley, Kris Kirk, Peter Burton, Terry Sanderson, Alice Saprich, Amália Rodrigues, Maria da Fé and almost the enire fado population of Lisbon, Damia, Elisabeth Welch, Serge Reggiani, Marian Montgomery, Elaine Paige, Charley Marouani, HM The Queen Mother, Joey Stefano, and Kirsty McColl. All these people praise him highly and have dedications in his books.
By way of contrast, Bret has little patience with fan-based forums. His books sell in large quantities, therefore the majority of fans of whoever the book is about greatly approve of the way he has tackled his subject. However, every star has his or her fanatics--a thankfully minuscule group of individuals who need to see their idol as they want to see them, and not as they really were. These fanatics post one-star reviews on the Amazon retail sites, or lambast Bret on their forums--it has become a popular pastime for some detractors!
Bret has a tradition of NEVER attacking anyone unless they attack him first, but when he makes his move--his Blog are notorious--he takes absolutely no prisoners. "They have a go at me," he says, "And they are flabbergasted at the way I bite back. Then they complain about me, when it was they who started the attack in the first place!"
Bret is a vociferous opponent of racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and all manner of ethnic prejudice. His books bear the motto, "La vie sans amis c'est comme un jardin sans fleurs", and are additionally inscribed in support of Les Enfants de Novembre, traditionally the oppressed minorities of the world. He has published 25 best-selling biographies, produced Marlene Dietrich's final CD, given a talk on Valentino in Chicago when Barack Obama was guest of honour, appeared in many television documentaries in Britain, Europe and the United States, and made over 600 radio broadcasts. Most of his books have been serialised in national newspapers. He has written three (as yet unplublished) stageplays, and two screenplays. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife, Jeanne, his son Marleau, and his mostly four-legged family.
The subjects of Bret's books are diverse, and usually controversial--otherwise he would see no point in writing about them! In "Rock Hudson", he claims that Rock did not contract AIDS by way of sex, but by way of a blood transfusion during open-heart surgery.
In "Morrissey: Landscapes Of The Mind", he panders to the half-crazed fans of the ex-Smiths frontman--but more than makes up for this error in "Morrissey: Scandal & Passion" a very revealing portrayal of the singer. Morrissey had wished for a previous biographer to die a horrible death. Of Bret's caustic wit, on a level with his own, he observed, "I would like to dust him down and stick him on my mantelshelf!"
The fussy members of the George Formby Society approved Bret's biography of the singer, until learning that he had labelled him a "camp icon". Assuming that the word "camp" equated to Formby being gay, they branded it "obscene"--it was anything but--and sent it winging to the top of the best-sellers charts! The much snootier Maria Callas Society praised Bret's applauding of La Divina's musical genius in "Maria Callas: The Tigress & The Lamb", but took umbrage at his claims that she attempted, and falied, to "straighten" out several gay would-be lovers. And was Callas really a friend of "common" entertainers Gracie Fields and Tallulah Bankhead, also the subjects of Bret biographies? One imagines that Bret and the fabulously foul-mouthed Miss B would have had oodles in common!0
07 with the publication Star. "I didn't rob a bank and I didn't kill
2010 saw the release of "Clark Gable" and "The Real Gracie Fields" in paperback, as usual by JR Books, along with "Diana Dors: Hurricane In Mink", the first biography of Britain's Number One sex symbol in over a decade, and the first to tell her story accurately and unflinchingly.
This year Bret also undertook a major project: hiis first independent production. "Brit Girls Of The Sixties: Dusty Springfield" was the first in a series. As the title explains, it covers Dusty's career in the Sixties, when she was one of the biggest names on the British music scene. The book also includes "Helen Shapiro: Teenager Sings The Blues". The second and thirdvolumes in the series are already finished. "Dusty" was followed by "Marianne Faithfull", which includes a study of blonde bombshell Kathy Kirby, and "Cilla, Sandie & Lulu".
The big scoop of course came in April 2011, following the death of Hollywood's last truly great superstar legend, Elizabeth Taylor. Bret's biography, "The Lady Was A Vamp", had been on the stocks for two years. Elizabeth knew about the book, and that it would only be published after her death. It was published in the UK on 7 April 2011, just two weeks after her death, under the new title, "Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend". The book is to be published imminently in Northern America, Sweden and Australia, and in the early summer in Poland and Russia.
Addendum:
Two of the world's greatest "Ms".....Marlene and Mario!
And least we forget, a few more M's....Morrissey, Maurice, Mistinguett & Mercury"
