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Bonhams, London, UK 6 December

BILLY COTTON’ post-WW1 professional life, by the standards of most people, was a riot. A er a stint working odd jobs and then as a bus driver, Cotton set up the London Savannah Band in 1924, and went on to play with some of the most famous musicians of the day before fronting the Billy Cotton Band Show on BBC radio from 1949 to 1968. But for a man who falsified his age in order to fight in the Great War, and who was flying solo in the RAF by the age of 18, playing music must have seemed relatively dull. Cotton turned to racing for his regular dose of adrenalin and was a regular at Brooklands, where he became acquainted with the likes of Malcolm Campbell, Count Zborowski and Henry…

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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015

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