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How a landmark in experimental British pop was created.Review by Kieron Tyler

Last modified on Mon 10 May 2021 16.18 EDT “I’d like to be remembered as the Dreaded Marcel Stellman,” Marcel Stellman once told me. “That’s what Spike Milligan called me. I produced I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas with the Goons in 1956 and I thought it would be a Christmas release. Spike insisted that it came out in the summer. It was a Top 10 hit and we followed it with The Ying Tong Song.” Stellman, who has died aged 96, had a long career in the music industry, both as a r...