The Sunday Telegraph London, July 29th, 2007
In Brewer's Dictionary of Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics, the late William Donaldson credited Simon Dee with having given his name to a phenomenon called 'Simon Dee Syndrome', defined as a condition suffered by those who are 'better remembered for having been forgotten than they would be if they were still remembered, which indeed they are, but only for having been forgotten, which they are not.' Clearly, the species of celebrity that Donaldson had in mind were bears of little brain - disc jockeys, television presenters and so on - and, at first glance, it seems unfair to apply this to a dis...
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