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The Drum & Major years
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[Financial Times] - That John Major is thoroughly at home with this story is shown by the density of well-chosen detail. We learn that stage magician John Nevil Maskelyne invented the penny-in-the-slot lavatory; that when Frankie Howerd urged the audience to “Desist! Desist!
Stage, radio, television, pop, he conquered them all
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[The Age] - The bandleader, Jack Payne, heard the program and this led to a spot in a new show, For the Fun of It, in which Bygraves starred with Donald Peers and a young Frankie Howerd. In 1950, Jack Parnell and Cissie Williams hired him as a replacement for Ted
Derek Jameson
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[Telegraph.co.uk] he would report even uncontentious items of news (often one of the less challenging features from that morning's Sun or Daily Star) affectionately recalled exponents of the scatological tradition of British comedy, such as Sid James and Frankie Howerd.
Glitz and grit from pop's renaissance man
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[The Age] - How you describe the finale of this show depends on your age as post-gig discussions threw up comparisons ranging from the climax of Rocky Horror Picture Show and Frankie Howerd's Up Pompeii to Bootsy Collins meets masked ball at a Kylie concert.
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