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He said to me that he didnt have normal feelings, that he didnt have friends, says author and journalist Dan Davies.
He is Jimmy Savile, and those words are a gross understatement.
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Knowing what we know now, any of us could have made that assumption of Savile. But Davies has the dubious privilege of having heard that admission from the man himself—as Saviles biographer, Davies spent a great deal of time with Savile interviewing him over six years.
Of course, it was only after Saviles death, in , that the truth of his life was revealed.
He studied what his impact was on other people.
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He calculated how he could manipulate that and use that to his own end, continues Davies, whose biography of Savile, In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile, recently won the Gordon Burn Prize. He used to boast to me about having this power to make people laugh.
That you couldnt help but laugh. It gave him power ove