Murray Lachlan Young once met a woman at the Cadogan Hotel whose handbag was made of poodle ear hair.
Years later, she sat in the front row of his show with a standard poodle beside her, just as he was about to tell the audience all about her.
Murray has a gift for moments like that. Today he is a poet, screenwriter, children’s author and performer with his film Summerset in development. He writes and performs his own characters on social media, including the Bullshit Guru, who has gone viral, with a live night coming to Soho. Follow him on Instagram at @murrayly.
It started in the 90s, when Everyone’s Taking Cocaine made him the only poet EMI ever signed for £1 million. Since then he has become the BBC’s longest serving resident poet, toured with Julian Cope, supported Chrissie Hynde, written for Mark Rylance at Shakespeare’s Globe, and adapted Under Milk Wood for the screen.
He tells Chrissy all: the line he made up for About a Boy that got him cut from the film, his childhood cats Puddy and Grandmaster Flash the Second, and the summer on a farm when he discovered horses have personalities.
He also performs his poem about Don, the collie who drove a tractor onto the M74 to become a beat poet.
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