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Ronnie Lane s story is a celebration and a tragedy and good to see it captured in style here The childhood early days in the East end are well scripted and humourous while the energy of the 60 s pop scene comes through as Ronnie s career tales off Ronnie has written couple of my favourite songs of all time in Itchycoo park and Ooh la La and I loved his travelling tent period in the 70 s and his collaboration with Pete Townsend with the Rough Mix lp His decline and failing health is where the tragedy sets in but his mates rally and he was a well loved character which comes through here I docked a star as one chapter ends with a sentence repeated twice Any for Any The Ronnie Lane Story

Broadcaster and occasional musician born in Birmingham England David began his career in fringe and community theatre in the 1970s In the early 1980s he collaborated and toured with Alexei Sayle which resulted in two series for Capital Radio two films for TV Itch and Didnt You Kill My Brother a book Great Bus Journeys of the World and various songs and recordings including Doctor Marten s Boots At the same time he was a presenter on the Channel 4 consumer programme 4 What It s Worth and contributed to many arts programmes and documentaries including The Media Show Channel 4 and extensively to The Late Show BBC2 His TV plays include Dread Poets Society BBC2 co written with the poet Benjamin Z David Stafford is a writer broadcaster and occasional musician born in Birmingham England David began his career in fringe and community theatre in the 1970s In the early 1980s he collaborated and toured with Alexei Sayle which resulted in two series for Capital Radio two films for TV Itch and Didn t You Kill My Brother a book Great Bus Journeys of the World and various songs and recordings including Doctor Marten s Boots At the same time he was a presenter on the Channel 4 consumer programme 4 What It s Worth and contributed to many arts programmes and documentaries including The Media Show Channel 4 and extensively to The Late Show BBC2 His TV plays include Dread Poets Society BBC2 co written with the poet Benjamin Zephaniah My Little Grey Home In The West and Catherine For ten years he wrote a weekly column for the Saturday Guardian eventually called Staffordshire Bull During the 1990s he presented Tracks for BBC2 Going Places for BBC Radio 4 and was a regular panellist on Radio 4 s literary parody game Booked David frequently stood in for John Peel as the presenter of Home Truths BBC Radio 4 After Peel s death he became first one of the pool of presenters and later sole presenter of the programme For the past five years he has taught a screenwriting course at Birkbeck College University of London site_link Ronnie Lane s story is that of a working class kid who started his musical career busking a ukulele at the age of eight As a young man he signed with legendary manager Don Arden who paid him in paisley shirts He then enjoyed a phenomenal 17 consecutive Top 40 singles womanising and LSD and fell under the spell of a mystic before joining forces with Rod Stewart Ronnie was later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis moved to America went broke and died far too young Drawing on extensive research and interviews with friends and family Caroline and David Stafford unearth the truth and talent of the man behind the music Any for Any The Ronnie Lane Story.