Music Hall is my Passion. My favourite theatre is the Leeds City Varieties Theatre (sorry Liverpool!). Not keen on taxmen or vampires, and often can't tell the difference between the two!!!
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Anything and everything by Ken Dodd ("Love is Like a Violin" is a special one). "Sonny Boy" obviously. Lancashire folk music from The Fivepenny Piece to The Lancashire Hotpots. George Formby. The Beatles. Gerry and the Pacemakers. All Merseybeat.
Magic (1978). A Hard Day's Night (1964). Hindle Wakes (1931). A Taste of Honey (1958) - that was originally gonna be called "A Taste of Jam Butty"!
"An Audience With Ken Dodd" is by far the best TV show ever, I never tire of replaying it!!!
Ken Dodd Biography. "British Music Hall: An Illustrated History" by Richard Anthony Baker. "Roy Hudd's Book of Music-hall, Variety and Showbiz Anecdotes" by Roy Hudd. "KEN DODD'S BIG DODDY BOOK HARDBACK" (1966) by Ken Dodd. "Knotty Ash: Broken Biscuit Repair Works, Jam Butty Mines, Snuff Quarry, Treacle Wells and Moggy Ranch (A Local History)" by Richard Mint.
Ken Dodd. Arthur Askey, Ted Ray, Robb Wilton, Max Miller and Tommy Handley. Miners. Pit Ponies. All "Ventriloquist Assistants" (NEVER use the "D" word!). People who laugh in the face of adversity. Gerry Marsden - top bloke!