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Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile (; 31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English DJ, television and radio personality who hosted
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shows including ''
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'' and ''
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''. During his lifetime, he was well known in the United Kingdom for his eccentric image and his charitable work. After his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse made against him were investigated, leading the police to conclude that he had been a predatory
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and possibly one of Britain's most prolific. quoting the head of the
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("It's now looking possible that Jimmy Savile was one fthe most prolific sex offenders the NSPCC has ever come across") and police ("We are dealing with alleged abuse on an unprecedented scale. The profile of this operation has empowered a staggering number of victims to come forward ... Police previously said Savile's alleged catalogue of sex abuse could have spanned six decades"). There had been allegations during his lifetime, but they were dismissed and accusers ignored or disbelieved. Savile took legal action against some accusers. As a teenager during the
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, Savile worked in
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as a
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and reportedly sustained spinal injuries. He began a career playing records in, and later managing, dance halls, and was said to have been the first disc jockey to use twin turntables to keep music in constant play. In his 20s, he was a
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. His media career started as a disc jockey at
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in 1958 and on
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in 1960, and he developed a reputation for eccentricity and flamboyance. A significant part of his career and public life involved working with children and young people, including visiting schools and hospital wards. At the BBC, he presented the first edition of ''Top of the Pops'' in 1964 and broadcast on
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from 1968. From 1975 until 1994, he presented ''Jim'll Fix It'', an early Saturday evening television programme which arranged for the wishes of viewers, mainly children, to come true. During his lifetime, he was known for fund-raising and supporting charities and hospitals, in particular
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in
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,
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and
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in
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. In 2009, he was described by ''
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'' as a "prodigious philanthropist" and was honoured for his charity work. He was awarded the OBE in 1971 and was knighted in 1990. In 2006, he introduced the last edition of ''Top of the Pops''. Savile died in 2011. He was praised in obituaries for his personal qualities and his work raising an estimated £40 million for charities. In October 2012, almost a year after his death, an
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documentary examined claims of sexual abuse by Savile. This led to extensive media coverage and a substantial and rapidly growing body of witness statements and sexual abuse claims, including accusations against
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for covering up or failure of duty.
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launched a
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into allegations of child sex abuse by Savile spanning six decades, describing him as a "predatory sex offender", and later stated that they were pursuing more than 400 lines of inquiry based on the testimony of 300 potential victims via 14 police forces across the UK. By late October 2012, the scandal had resulted in inquiries or reviews at the BBC, within the
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, the
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, and the
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. In June 2014, investigations into Savile's activities at 28 NHS hospitals, including Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor
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, concluded that he had sexually assaulted staff and patients aged between 5 and 75 over several decades. Following the sexual abuse scandal, some of his honours were posthumously revoked, and episodes of ''Top of the Pops'' presented by Savile have not been repeated.


Early life

Savile, born at Consort Terrace, in the Burley area of
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, was the youngest of seven children (his elder siblings were Mary, Marjory, Vincent, John, Joan, and Christina) in a
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family. His parents were Vincent Joseph Marie Savile (1886–1953), a
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's clerk and insurance agent, and his wife, Agnes Monica Kelly (1886–1972). His paternal grandmother was Scottish. Savile grew up during the
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, and later claimed, "I was forged in the crucible of want." He described his father as "scrupulously honest but scrupulously broke." Savile's mother believed he owed his life to the intercession of Margaret Sinclair, a Scottish nun, after he recovered quickly from illness, possibly
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, at the age of two when his mother prayed at
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after picking up a pamphlet about Sinclair. Savile went to St Anne's Roman Catholic School in Leeds. After leaving school at the age of 14 he worked in an office. At the age of 18 during the
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he was conscripted to work as a
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and worked in
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, where he reportedly suffered spinal injuries from a shot-firer's explosion, and he spent a long period recuperating, wearing a steel corset and for three years walking with the aid of sticks. Following his
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work, Savile became a scrap metal dealer. Savile started playing records in dance halls in the early 1940s, and claimed to be the first DJ. According to his autobiography, he was the first to use
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at the Grand Records Ball at the Guardbridge Hotel in 1947, although his claim to have been the first is untrue; twin turntables were illustrated in the ''BBC Handbook'' in 1929 and advertised for sale in '' Gramophone'' magazine in 1931. He became a semi-professional sportsman, competing in the 1951
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and working as a
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. He said: Savile lived in
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from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, the later period with
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, Salford, he was often seen sitting on his front door steps. He managed the
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Locarno ballroom in Leeds in the late 1950s and early 1960s as well as the Mecca-owned Palais dance hall in Ilford, Essex, between 1955 and 1956. His Monday evening records-only dance sessions (admission one shilling) were popular with local teens. It was while at Ilford that Savile was discovered by a music executive from
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.


Career


Radio

Savile's radio career began as a DJ at
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from 1958 to 1968. By 1968 he presented six programmes a week, and his Saturday show reached six million listeners. In terms of recognition, he was one of the leading DJs in Britain by the early 1960s. In 1968, he joined Radio 1, where he presented ''Savile's Travels'', a weekly programme broadcast on Sundays in which he travelled around the UK talking to members of the public. From 1969 to 1973 he fronted ''Speakeasy'', a discussion programme for teenagers. On Radio 1 he presented the Sunday lunchtime show ''Jimmy Savile's Old Record Club'', playing chart Top 10s from years gone by. It was the first show to feature old charts and Savile used a "points system" in an imaginary quiz with the audience to guess the names of the song and artist. It began in 1973 as ''The Double Top Ten Show'', and ended in 1987 as ''The Triple Top Ten Show'' when he left Radio 1 after 19 years. He presented ''The Vintage Chart Show'', playing top tens from 1957 to 1987, on the
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from March 1987 until October 1989. From March 1989 to August 1997, he broadcast on various stations around the UK (mostly taking the
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format, such as the West Midlands'
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and the
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network in Yorkshire) where he revived his Radio 1 shows. In 1994, satirist Chris Morris gave a fake obituary on BBC Radio 1, saying that Savile had collapsed and died, which allegedly drew threats of legal action from Savile and forced an apology from Morris. On 25 December 2005, and 1 January 2007, he presented shows on the
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network. The Christmas 2005 show counted down the festive Top 10s of 10, 20 and 30 years previously, while the New Year 2007 show (also taken by
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following its acquisition by GMG) featured Savile recounting anecdotes from his past and playing associated records, mostly from the 1960s and some from the 1970s.


Television

Savile's first television role was as a presenter of
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's music programme '' Young at Heart'', which aired from May 1960. Although the show was broadcast in black and white, Savile dyed his hair a different colour every week. On New Year's Day 1964, he presented the first edition of the BBC
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television programme ''
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'' from
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, a television studio in a converted church in
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, Manchester. On 30 July 2006, he co-hosted the final weekly edition, ending it with the words "It's number one, it's still ''Top of the Pops''", before turning off the studio lights after the closing credits. When interviewed by the BBC on 20 November 2008 and asked about the revival of ''Top of the Pops'' for a Christmas comeback, he said he would welcome a "cameo role" in the programme. In the early 1960s, Savile co-hosted (with Pete Murray) the televised ''
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'' Poll Winners' Concert, held annually at the Empire Pool in Wembley, with acts such as
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,
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and
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, Joe Brown and the Bruvvers,
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, and many others. On 31 December 1969, he hosted the BBC/
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co-production ''
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'', shown across Western Europe, celebrating the hits of the decade. Savile presented a series of
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s promoting road safety, notably " Clunk Click Every Trip", which promoted the use of seatbelts, the clunk representing the sound of the door and the click the sound of the seatbelt fastening. It led to Savile's Saturday-night chat/variety show from 1973 on BBC1 entitled ''Clunk, Click'', which in 1974 featured the UK heats of the ''
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'' featuring
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. After two series, ''Clunk, Click'' was replaced by ''
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'', which he presented from 1975 to 1994. Savile won an award from Mary Whitehouse's
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in 1977 for his "wholesome family entertainment". He fronted a long-running series of advertisements in the early 1980s for British Rail's
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, in which he declared " This is the age of the train". Savile was twice the subject of the
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series '' This Is Your Life'' in January 1970 with
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and again in December 1990 with
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. In an interview by
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for the radio series ''
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'' in 1991, Savile appeared to be "a man without feelings". "There is something chilling about this 20th-century 'saint'", Clare concluded in 1992 in his introduction to the published transcript of this interview.
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interviewed him for the TV series '' Is This Your Life?'' in 1995 where Savile "used a banana to avoid discussing his personal life". In 1999, he appeared as a panellist on '' Have I Got News for You''. In April 2000, he was the subject of a documentary by
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, in the '' When Louis Met...'' series, in which Theroux accompanied British celebrities going about their daily business and interviewed them about their lives and experiences. In the documentary, Savile confided that he used to beat people up and lock them in a basement during his career as a nightclub manager. When Theroux challenged Savile about rumours of paedophilia over a decade before, Savile said: "We live in a very funny world. And it's easier for me, as a single man, to say 'I don't like children', because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt." Savile visited the ''
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'' house on 14 and 15 January 2006 (in
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) and "fixed it" for some housemates to have their wishes granted; Pete Burns received a message from his boyfriend, Michael, and Lynn, his ex-wife, while
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traded Savile's offering for a supply of cigarettes for the other housemates. In 2007, Savile returned to television with ''Jim'll Fix It Strikes Again'' showing some of the most popular fix-its, recreating them with the same people, and making new dreams come true.


Fundraising, sponsorship and voluntary work

Savile is estimated to have raised £40 million for charity. One cause for which he raised money was
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, where he volunteered for many years as a porter. He raised money for the Spinal Unit, NSIC ( National Spinal Injuries Centre), and St Francis Ward – a ward for children and teens with spinal cord injuries. Savile also volunteered at
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and
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. In August 1988, he was appointed by junior health minister
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chair of an interim task force overseeing the management of Broadmoor Hospital, after its board members had been suspended. Savile had his own rooms at both Stoke Mandeville and Broadmoor. In 1989, Savile started legal proceedings against News Group Newspapers after the '' News of the World'' published an article, in January 1988, suggesting he had been in a position to secure the release of patients from Broadmoor who were considered "dangerous". Savile won on 11 July 1989; News Group paid his legal costs, and he received an apology from editors
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and Patsy Chapman. In 2012, it was reported that Savile had sexually abused vulnerable patients at the hospitals. From 1974 to 1988, Savile was the honorary president of Phab (Physically Handicapped in the Able Bodied community). He sponsored medical students performing undergraduate research in the
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Research Enterprise scholarship scheme, donating more than £60,000 every year. In 2010, the scheme was given a commitment of £500,000 over the following five years. Following Savile's death in October 2011, it was confirmed that a bequest had been made to allow continued support for the programme. Savile was a participant in marathons (many for Phab, including its annual
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around
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). He also cycled from Land's End to John o' Groats in 10 days for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and ran in the Scottish People's Marathon. It was reported that he completed the
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at the age of 79; rumours that he was driven round in a lead vehicle as an "observer" were denied by marathon officials. Savile set up two charities, the Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust in 1981, and the Leeds-based Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust in 1984. During the sexual abuse scandal in October 2012 the charities announced that they would distribute their funds, of £1.7 million and £3.7 million respectively, among other charities and then close down. He also raised money for several Jewish charities.


Public image and friendships

During his lifetime and at the time of his death, Savile was regarded as "an eccentric adornment to British public life ... an ubiquitous and distinctive face on television", who "relished being in the public eye" and was "a shrewd promoter of his own image". He created a "bizarre yodel", and catchphrases which included "How's about that, then?", "Now then, now then", "Goodness gracious", "As it 'appens" and "Guys and gals". Savile was frequently spoofed for his dress sense, which usually featured a
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or shellsuit and gold jewellery. A range of licensed
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costumes was released with his consent in 2009. Savile was often pictured holding a
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. He claimed to have started smoking cigars at the age of seven, saying "My dad gave me a drag on one at Christmas, thinking it would put me off them forever, but it had the opposite effect." Savile was a member of Mensa and the
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and drove a
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. He was made a life member of the British Gypsy Council in 1975, becoming the first "outsider" to be made a member. In 1984, Savile was accepted as a member of the
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, a gentlemen's club in London's Pall Mall, after being proposed by Cardinal Basil Hume. He was chieftain of the
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Highland Games for many years, and owned a house in
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; his appearance on the final edition of ''Top of the Pops'' in 2006 was pre-recorded as it clashed with the games. Through his support of charities, Savile became a friend of
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, who in 1981 described his work as "marvellous". It has been reported that Savile spent 11 consecutive
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s at Chequers with Thatcher and her family, although this is disputed by Thatcher's daughter, Carol, and by Lord Bell, a close friend of the Thatcher family, who said "people make up such rubbish". Letters released in December 2012 by the National Archives under the
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confirm the "close friendship" between Savile and Thatcher. Some of the correspondence was heavily redacted before publication, using exemptions under the
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. Savile met Prince Charles through mutual charity interests. His work with Stoke Mandeville Hospital also made Savile a suitable figure to whom the Prince could turn "for advice on navigating Britain's health authorities". Charles met Savile on several occasions. In 1999, Charles visited Savile's
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home for a private meal and reportedly sent him gifts on his 80th birthday and a note reading: "Nobody will ever know what you have done for this country, Jimmy. This is to go some way in thanking you for that." Savile was also in contact with other members of the royal household and received telegrams from
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, and
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, as well as a handwritten letter from Princess Alexandra's husband
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and a homemade card from
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. Savile acted as an unofficial adviser to Prince Charles, who sought his advice on a number of occasions on how the royal family ought to interact with the public and media. In 1989, Savile hand-wrote an unofficial set of guidelines to Charles on how members of the royal family and staff may respond to disasters. Charles showed the dossier to his father, Prince Philip, who passed the contents on to
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. A lifelong bachelor, Savile lived with his mother (whom he referred to as the "Duchess") and kept her bedroom and wardrobe exactly as it was when she died. Every year he had her clothes dry cleaned. Savile's personal relationships were rarely the subject of media report or comment in his lifetime. In his autobiography, he claimed he had had many sexual relations with women, and that "there have been trains and, with apologies to the hit parade, boats and planes (I am a member of the 40,000ft club) and bushes and fields, corridors, doorways, floors, chairs, slag heaps, desks and probably everything except the celebrated chandelier and ironing board".


Health and death

On 9 August 1997, Savile underwent a three-hour quadruple heart-bypass operation at Killingbeck Hospital in
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, Leeds, having known he needed the surgery for at least four years after attending regular check-ups. He arranged for a bench in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, to be dedicated to his memory, with a plaque saying "Jimmy Savile – but not just yet!" On 29 October 2011, Savile was found dead at his
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overlooking
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in Leeds, two days before his 85th birthday. He had been in hospital with
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, and his death was not suspicious. His closed satin gold coffin was displayed at the Queens Hotel in Leeds, with the last cigar he smoked and his two '' This Is Your Life'' books. Around 4,000 people visited to pay tribute. His funeral took place at
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on 9 November 2011, and he was buried at Woodlands Cemetery in Scarborough. As specified in his will, his coffin was inclined at 45 degrees to fulfil his wish to "see the sea". The coffin was encased in concrete "as a security measure". An auction of Savile's possessions was conducted at the
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, Leeds, on 30 July 2012, with the proceeds going to charity. His silver
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convertible was sold for £130,000 to an Internet bidder. The vehicle's
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, JS 247, featured the original medium wave wavelength used by
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( 247 metres).


Sexual abuse by Savile

Savile often came into contact with his victims through his creative projects for the BBC and his charitable work for the NHS. A significant part of his career and public life involved working with children and young people, including visiting schools and hospital wards. He spent 20 years from 1964 presenting ''Top of the Pops'', aimed at a teenage audience, and an overlapping 20 years presenting ''Jim'll Fix It'', in which he helped the wishes of viewers, mainly children, come true.


Allegations during his lifetime

During his lifetime, two police investigations considered reports about Savile, the earliest known being in 1958, but none had led to charges; the reports had each concluded that there was insufficient evidence for any charges to be brought related to sexual offences. Sporadic allegations of child abuse were made against him dating back to 1963, but these only became widely publicised after his death. His autobiography ''As it Happens'' (1974, reprinted as ''Love is an Uphill Thing'', 1976) contains admissions of improper sexual conduct which appear to have passed unnoticed during his lifetime. Former Sex Pistols and
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vocalist John Lydon alluded to sordid conduct committed by Savile, as well as suppression of widely held knowledge about such activity, in an October 1978 interview recorded for
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. Lydon stated: "I'd like to kill Jimmy Savile; I think he's a hypocrite. I bet he's into all kinds of seediness that we all know about, but are not allowed to talk about. I know some rumours." He added: "I bet none of this will be allowed out." As predicted, the comment was edited out by the BBC prior to broadcasting, but the complete interview was included as a bonus track on a re-release of Public Image Ltd's 1978 debut album '' Public Image: First Issue'' in 2013, after Savile's death. In October 2014, Lydon expanded on his original quote, saying: "By killed I meant locking him up and stopping him assaulting young children... I'm disgusted at the media pretending they weren't aware." In 1987, Scottish stand-up comedian
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recorded a performance in Edinburgh in which he stated that Savile was a
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. The album, ''Gobshite'', was withdrawn amid fears of legal action. In a 1990 interview for ''
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'',
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asked Savile about rumours that he liked "little girls". Savile's reply was that, as he worked in the pop music business, "the young girls in question don't gather round me because of me – it's because I know the people they love, the stars... I am of no interest to them." In April 2000, in a documentary by
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, ''When Louis Met... Jimmy'', Savile acknowledged "salacious tabloid people" had raised rumours about whether he was a paedophile, and said, "I know I'm not." A follow-up documentary, '' Louis Theroux: Savile'', about Savile and Theroux's inability to dig more deeply, aired on
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in 2016. In 2007, Savile was interviewed under caution by police investigating an allegation of indecent assault in the 1970s at the now-closed Duncroft Approved School for Girls near Staines,
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, where he was a regular visitor. In October 2009 the
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advised there was insufficient evidence to take any further action and no charges were brought. In March 2008, Savile started legal proceedings against '' The Sun'', which had linked him in several articles to child abuse at the
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children's home
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. At first, he denied visiting Haut de la Garenne, but later admitted he had done so following the publication of a photograph showing him at the home surrounded by children. The
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said that in 2008 an allegation of an indecent assault by Savile at the home in the 1970s had been investigated, but there had been insufficient evidence to proceed. In a 2009 interview with his biographer, Savile defended viewers of child pornography, including pop star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter. He argued that viewers "didn't do anything wrong but they are then demonised", and described Glitter as a celebrity being unfairly vilified for watching "dodgy films" in the privacy of his home: "Gary... has not tried to sell 'em, not tried to show them in public or anything like that. It were for his own gratification. Whether it was right or wrong is, of course, it's up to him as a person." The interview was not published at the time, and the recording was not released until after Savile's death. In 2012, Sir Roger Jones, a former
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for Wales and chairman of BBC charity '' Children in Need'', disclosed that more than a decade before Savile's death he had banned the "very strange" and "creepy" Savile from involvement in the charity. Former
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press secretary
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said Savile's behaviour had raised "concern and suspicion" when Savile acted as an informal
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between Prince Charles and
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in the late 1980s, although no reports had been made. Arbiter added that during his regular visits to Charles's office at St James's Palace, Savile would "do the rounds of the young ladies taking their hands and rubbing his lips all the way up their arms".


After his death

Immediately after Savile's death, the BBC's ''
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'' programme began an investigation into reports that he was a sexual abuser.
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and
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interviewed one alleged victim on camera and others agreed to have their stories told. The interviewees alleged abuse at Duncroft approved school for girls in Staines, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and the BBC. ''Newsnight'' also discovered that Surrey Police had investigated allegations of abuse against Savile. The item was scheduled for broadcast in ''Newsnight'' on 7 December 2011, but was withdrawn before broadcast; over Christmas 2011, the BBC broadcast two tributes to Savile. In December 2012, a review led by
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of the BBC's handling of the issue described the decision not to broadcast the ''Newsnight'' investigation as "flawed". The review said that Jones and MacKean had found "cogent evidence" that Savile was an abuser.
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– at that time the Director of BBC Vision – who had been told about the plan to broadcast the ''Newsnight'' item, was described by the review as "unnecessarily cautious, and an opportunity was lost". There was no public mention of the ''Newsnight'' investigation into Savile in December 2011 but in early 2012 several newspapers reported that the BBC had investigated but not broadcast (its report of) allegations of sexual abuse immediately after his death. ''
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'' alleged there had been a cover-up by the BBC. On 28 September 2012, almost a year after his death,
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said it would broadcast a documentary as part of its '' Exposure'' series'', The Other Side of Jimmy Savile''. The documentary, presented by Mark Williams-Thomas, a consultant on the original ''Newsnight'' investigation, revealed claims by up to 10 women, including one aged under 14 at the time, that they had been molested or raped by Savile during the 1960s and 1970s. The announcement attracted national attention, and more reports and claims of abuse against him accumulated. The documentary was broadcast on 3 October. The next day, the
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said the Child Abuse Investigation Command would assess the allegations. The developing scandal led to inquiries into practices at the BBC and the
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. It was alleged that rumours of Savile's activities had circulated at the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s, but no action had been taken. The
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,
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, apologised for what had happened, and on 16 October 2012 appointed former High Court judge Dame Janet Smith to review the culture and practices of the BBC during the time Savile worked there; and
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, a former Sky News executive, was appointed to look at why the ''Newsnight'' investigation into Savile's activities was dropped shortly before transmission in December 2011. By 19 October 2012, police were pursuing 400 lines of inquiry based on testimony from 200 witnesses via 14 police forces across the UK. They described the alleged abuse as "on an unprecedented scale", and the number of potential victims as "staggering". Investigations codenamed
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were opened to identify criminal conduct related to Savile's activities by the Metropolitan Police, and to review the 2009 decision by the
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to drop a prosecution as "unlikely to succeed". By 25 October, police reported the number of possible victims was approaching 300. On 22 October 2012, the BBC programme '' Panorama'' broadcast an investigation into ''Newsnight'' and found evidence suggesting "senior manager" pressure; on the same day ''Newsnight'' editor
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"stepped down" with immediate effect. The
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appointed former
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to chair and oversee its investigations into Savile's activities at
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,
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, Broadmoor Hospital and other hospitals and facilities in England. On 12 November 2012, the Metropolitan Police announced the scale of sexual allegations reported against Savile was "unprecedented" in Britain: a total of 450 alleged victims had contacted the police in the ten weeks since the investigation was launched. Officers recorded 199 crimes in 17 police force areas in which Savile was a suspect, among them 31 allegations of rape in seven force areas. Analysis of the report showed 82% of those who came forward to report abuse were female and 80% were children or young people at the time of the incidents. One former Broadmoor nurse claimed that Savile had said that he engaged in necrophiliac acts with corpses in the Leeds General Infirmary mortuary; Savile was said to be friends with the chief mortician, who gave him near-unrestricted access. ''Exposure Update: The Jimmy Savile Investigation'' was shown on ITV on 21 November 2012. In March 2013,
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reported that 214 of the complaints that had been made against Savile after his death would have been criminal offences if they had been reported at the time. Sixteen victims reported being raped by Savile when they were under 16 (the age of heterosexual consent in England) and four of those had been under the age of 10. Thirteen others reported serious sexual assaults by Savile, including four who had been under 10 years old. Another 10 victims reported being raped by Savile after the age of 16. In January 2013, a joint report by the
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and Metropolitan Police, '' Giving Victims a Voice'', stated that 450 people had made complaints against Savile, the period of alleged abuse stretching from 1955 to 2009 and the ages of the complainants at the times of the assaults ranging from 8 to 47. The suspected victims included 28 children aged under 10, including 10 boys aged eight. A further 63 were girls aged between 13 and 16, and nearly three-quarters of his alleged victims were under 18. Some 214 criminal offences were recorded, 34
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s having been reported across 28 police forces. Former professional wrestler
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described in a November 2013 interview how "Savile used to go on and on about the young girls who'd wait in line for him outside his dressing room ... He'd pick the ones he wanted and say to the rest, 'Unlucky, come back again tomorrow night'." Savile, who cultivated a "tough guy" image promoted by his entourage, was hit with real blows during a 1971 bout with Street, who commented that had he "known then the full extent of what I know about avilenow, I'd have given him an even bigger hiding – were that physically possible." During the
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in March 2019, it was reported that Robert Armstrong, the head of the Honours Committee, had resisted attempts by
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to award Savile a knighthood in the 1980s, due to concerns about his private life. An anonymous letter received by the committee in 1998 said that "reports of a paedophilia nature" could emerge about Savile. In 2022, former BBC presenter Mark Lawson wrote about his encounters with Savile, and hearing from many BBC personnel not at the top level about his abuse and rumoured necrophilia. Lawson ended:


Aftermath

An authorised biography, ''How's About That Then?'', by Alison Bellamy, was published in June 2012. After the claims made against him were published, the author said that, in the light of the allegations, she felt "let down and betrayed" by Savile. Within a month of the child abuse scandal emerging, many places and organisations named after or connected to Savile were renamed or had his name removed. A memorial plaque on the wall of Savile's former home in
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was removed in early October 2012 after it was defaced with graffiti. A wooden statue of Savile at
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in
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was also removed around the same time. Signs on a footpath in Scarborough named "Savile's View" were removed. Savile's Hall, the conference centre at the
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in Leeds, was renamed New Dock Hall. The Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust and the Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust, two registered charities founded in his name to fight "poverty and sickness and other charitable purposes" announced they were too closely tied to his name to be sustainable and would close and distribute their funds to other charities, so as to avoid harm to beneficiaries from future media attention. On 9 October 2012, relatives said the headstone of Savile's grave would be removed, destroyed and sent to
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. The Savile family expressed their sorrow for the "anguish" of the victims and "respect orpublic opinion". Savile's body is interred in the cemetery in Scarborough, although it has been proposed that it be exhumed and cremated. On 28 October, it was reported that Savile's cottage in
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had been vandalised with spray-paint and the door damaged. The cottage was sold in May 2013. In 2012, Richard Harrison, a long-serving
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at
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, said that Savile had long been regarded by staff as "a man with a severe
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and a liking for children". Another nurse, Bob Allen, considered Savile to be a
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, stating: "A lot of the staff said he should be behind bars." Allen also said that he had once reported Savile to his supervisor for apparent improper conduct with a juvenile, but no action was taken. Psychologists in ''
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'' and '' The Herald'' argued that Savile exhibited the
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of personality traits:
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,
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, and psychopathy. Savile's estate, believed to be worth about £4–4.3 million, was frozen by its executors, NatWest bank, in view of the possibility that those alleging that they had been assaulted by Savile could make claims for damages.Rozenberg, Joshua (26 February 2015)
"Jimmy Savile and the complex question of victim compensation"
''
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''. London. Retrieved 18 November 2015. After "a range of expenses" were charged to the estate, a remainder of about £3.3 million was available to compensate victims, those victims not having a claim against another entity (such as the
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or the
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) being given priority, and all victims limited to a maximum claim of £60,000 against all entities combined. The compensation scheme was approved in late 2014 by the courts. Most of Savile's honours were rescinded following the sexual abuse claims. As a knighthood expires when the holder dies, it cannot be posthumously revoked. Episodes of ''Top of the Pops'' hosted by him are not repeated. On 26 June 2014, UK
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delivered a public apology in the
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to the patients of the National Health Service abused by Savile. He confirmed that complaints had been raised before 2012 but were ignored by the bureaucratic system:


Dramatisation

In October 2020, the BBC announced a mini-series with the working title '' The Reckoning'', which will recount Savile's rise to fame and the sexual abuse scandal that emerged after his death. The drama was expected to be broadcast by the BBC in 2022, but has now been pushed back to 2024. A source said, “The four-part drama is being edited in such a meticulous and careful way, so as not to create more pain and suffering for Savile’s victims.” Writer Neil McKay and producer Jeff Pope had previously worked together on dramatisations on the murders of
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, the disappearance of Shannon Matthews and the murders of Stephen Port. In September 2021
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was cast as Savile; he said he did not take the decision lightly, and that it was a "horrific story which – however harrowing – needs to be told". In April 2022,
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released a two-part documentary, '' Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story'', commissioned from 72 Films. It covers the life and career of Savile, his history of committing sexual abuse, and the scandal that occurred after his death in 2011, when numerous complaints were raised about his behaviour.


Honours and awards

* In the 1972 New Year Honours, Savile was appointed an
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, entitled to append OBE to his name. * In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, Savile was made a
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"for charitable services", entitled to use the honorific prefix
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. Prime Minister
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had made four attempts to have him knighted before succeeding in her final year in office. Following the allegations of sexual abuse, British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested in October 2012 that it would be possible for Savile's honours to be rescinded by the Honours Forfeiture Committee. A Cabinet Office spokesman said that there was no procedure to posthumously revoke an OBE or knighthood, as these honours automatically expire when a person dies, but that the committee might consider introducing a process to do so in the light of Savile's case. * Savile was honoured with a
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by being made a Knight Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great (KCSG) by
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in 1990. After the scandal broke, the Catholic Church in England and Wales asked the
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to consider stripping Savile of the honour. In October 2012, Father
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told BBC News: * Savile was an honorary fellow of the
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(FRCR). * Savile had the Cross of Merit of the '.


Withdrawn honours

Many honours are considered to cease on the death of the holder; some of Savile's honours were considered no longer applicable, and did not need to be rescinded. In other cases honours were withdrawn, or removed from lists: * In the 1970s, Savile was awarded an honorary
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by the
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for completing the Royal Marine Commando speed march, across
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carrying of kit. Following the allegations of child abuse, his beret award was not revoked, as that honour expires upon death of the marine. However, the Royal Marines ordered that any certification granted to Savile or mention of Savile's name in their records be expunged immediately. * Savile was awarded an honorary
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(LLD) by the
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in 1986, which was revoked in 2012. * Savile was awarded an honorary doctorate from the
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in 2009, which was posthumously rescinded in October 2012. * Savile was made a
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of the Borough of Scarborough in 2005. This honour was removed in November 2012.


Filmography

* ''
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'' (1964–1984, 1988, 2001, 2003, 2006) * ''Clunk, Click'' (1973–1974) * ''
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'' (1975–1994) * ''
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'' (1985) * '' When Louis Met Jimmy'' (2000) * ''Jim'll Fix It Strikes Again'' (2007)


Books, recordings and other works

; Books: * Savile, Jimmy. ''As it Happens'', , Barrie & Jenkins 1974 (autobiography) * Savile, Jimmy. ''Love is an Uphill Thing'', , Coronet 1976 (paperback edition of ''As it Happens'') * Savile, Jimmy. ''God'll Fix It'', , Mowbray, Oxford 1979 ; Recordings: * 1962, "
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" with
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. Decca, F11493 (single)


References


External links


BBC News profile
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