The Whole of The Moon: Lee Duffy

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The author was able to brilliantly bring to life this complex, contradictory and charasmatic figure. There were a few times where I had told him something about someone and then later on if we bumped into that person he would repeat what I had said about them to their face. In additon, it is clear to deduce from the firsthand stories and with a touch of common sense, that Lee only looked for fights with blokes who could handle themselves.

Featuring well known stories that have since become legend across Middlesbrough as well as tales never heard before, the book paints a picture of two men who started out as enemies, and became the best of friends. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Proud to be known as Viv's arch enemy, Lee was feared and respected in equal measure and wanted to get out of the game for the sake of his family, but was so deeply involved that there was only one way he would ever leave.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Jamie added: “I grew up in Middlesbrough and heard of Lee Duffy when I was eight and he died when I was 11. A legend in his own lifetime, he was the ultimate maverick troubleshooter whose size and ability to fight enabled him to live just as he wishes, never forgetting the deprived community he came from, who in times of need, considered him the fourth emergency service.I do think Jamie seems a cool bloke and yes he is obsessed with Duffy and does glamorize him and make excuses for his often disgusting bullying behaviour, in fairness duffy is a fascinating character who's legacy has been built up probly way more than it deserves, I'd say he got beat many of times in a fair fight that we haven't heard of, but there is no doubt he was an absolute lunatic, the whole bullying thing is a cop out and all nonsense in my opinion, he had something wrong with him and by all accounts just thrived on violence and carnage he just loved hurting people to gain his reputation and install fear in everyone. It includes pictures of when Lee Duffy was a youngster growing up in South Bank, as well as documenting Brian's bodybuilding career too. No stone will be left unturned and this book will not shy away from controversy, but will aim to provide an unbiased and balanced view on the ‘Boro' icon . Anyone around in the time of Lee Duffy will have certainly heard of him, there's plenty documented about one side of him that I don't need to go into here, but this book reveals so much more about the man as a whole.

Lee Duffy was a well-known boxer and bouncer from South Bank in Middlesbrough who was feared by many people on Teesside throughout the 1980s before his death in 1991. Every precious dream and vision - Underneath the stars, yes, you climbed on the ladder, With the wind in your sails. It by no means glorifies him, there’s nothing clever about being a bully, but he battled demons and had issues which he continued to have throughout his life,” Jamie said.Lee is a fascinating character, a bullied bully who definitely lived life to the full, however asking ppl their views on Lee and then making each opinion a chapter in the book makes for a boring read. I’ve spoken to people who knew him as a child and he would often be seen walking around his estate late on a school night because he never wanted to go home. A bar with only a loose grip on rules, it had gloriously graffitied toilets, a bit out the back, which became a space for the London graffiti community to paint and gather, and a free gallery space upstairs where Banksy held his first Santa’s Ghetto/first London show, FAILE and Bäst did their first UK show and many, many others exhibited. Teeside drugs enforcer Lee Duffy had half his foot shot off in an assassination attempt and his skull beaten with a crowbar, but his streetwise instinct was unmatched.