Joey Mellen

Joseph "Joey" Mellen (born September 1939) is the British-born author of Bore Hole, a book about his attempts at self-trepanation, influenced by Bart Huges, and his eventual success with the help of his partner Amanda Feilding.[1][2][3] Mellen then filmed Amanda's own self-trepanation for a documentary entitled Heartbeat in the Brain.[2]

Mellen and Feilding lived together from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. They had two sons, Rock Basil Hugo Feilding-Mellen (born 1979) and Cosmo Birdie Feilding-Mellen (born 1985).[4] Rock Feilding-Mellen is a local councillor and cabinet member for housing, property and regeneration with Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council.[5]

In 1994 Mellen met Jenny Gathorne-Hardy, who was trepanned in 1995.[6] Their son Rudy Blu was born in 1996 and they were married later that year; their daughter Lily was born in 2012.

References

  1. ↑ "Q. How do hippy aristocrats broaden their minds? A. They bore holes in their heads". Evening Standard. 14 September 1995.
  2. 1 2 "EUREKA!". Daily Mail. November 18, 2004.
  3. ↑ Birth date from Bore Hole
  4. ↑ "Like a hole in the head". The Sunday Independent. 31 August 2008.
  5. ↑ O'Hagan, Andrew (7 June 2018). "The Tower". London Review of Books.
  6. ↑ Gathorne-Hardy, Jenny (16 September 1985). "The Hole Story of my Life". The Independent on Sunday.

Other sources

  • Michell John (1984), Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions, ISBN 0-15-127358-8
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