Richard Desmond is an example to all working class people of how effort and talent can help one succeed and knock spots off the "magic circle" and their "silver spoons" to become one of the richest people in the country.
Desmond is not Establishment, he backed UKIP to the dismay of the "great and the good" and the "magic circle".
"After Cyril lost a significant amount of family money to gambling, his parents divorced[13] and 11-year-old Desmond moved with his mother, Millie, into a flat above a garage; he has described his impoverished early adolescence as a time when he was "very fat and very lonely".[13]
Desmond was educated at Edgware Junior School and Christ's College, Finchley.[11][14]
Early business careerEdit
Desmond left school at 15 and started working in the classified advertisements section of the Thomson Group, while playing the drums at gigs after a day's work.[14] After moving to another company, he became sales director of Beat Instrumental Magazine at 18. Desmond owned two record shops by the time he was 21.[15] In the mid-1970s, Desmond combined his interest in music and advertising to found, with Ray Hammond, International Musician and Recording World, a monthly magazine for musicians, eventually driving out of business long-established publications such as Beat Instrumental.
He was an early pioneer of the international licensing of magazines: International Musician soon had editions in the US, Australia, Japan, Germany as well as the UK.[16] This was followed by the publication of Home Organist, whose editor contributed the old-school motto Forti Nihil Difficile ("Nothing is difficult for the strong" – it was Disraeli's motto), still used by the Northern & Shell publishing group. Desmond eventually bought out Hammond.
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