George Melly
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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,
Melly, circa 1978
Nuts (album cover) by George Melly & The Feetwarmers
River Usk
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The River Usk is a river in south Wales that rises on the northern slopes of the Black Mountain range, in the western part of the Brecon Beacons National Park, and flows into the Severn Estuary at Usk
George Melly
…Take a Girl Like Me, describing their life and open marriage together, in 2005. George and Diana Melly had a country retreat, Scethrog Tower in the Usk Valley, between 1971 and 1999. This was somewhere Melly could escape the jazz world and indulge his love of fishing on the River Usk. Jazz followed him, and…
Looking north across the river, near Newport, towards Caerleon
The River Usk near Abergavenny with the Blorenge in the background