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   Who is Jake Thackray?

   • In 1971, Jake Thackray made a documentary for ITN about a valley in North Yorkshire called Swaledale. He is recognised in the program and asked if he is Jake Thackray to which he replies, “Sometimes… more or less.” It feels almost heretical to write a summation of his work.

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   Was Jake Thackray an anarchist?

   • ‘The Bull’ from Jake Thackray And Songs (1981) Although politics were never directly obvious in Jake Thackray’s lyrics, he had an anarchist streak that manifested as a wariness of authority figures. His song ‘The Bull’ is a dissection of what Joseph Conrad called the “exquisite comedy” of leadership.

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   Is Jake Thackray on DVD?

   • Jake Thackray at the BBC makes available on DVD, for the first time, fifty-six performances, covering Jake’s career from 1968 to 1985. The footage, most of which hasn’t seen the light of day for half a century, includes rare and previously unreleased songs, and everything that is known to survive in the BBC archives.

   Beware of the Bull – The Enigmatic Genius of Jake Thackray

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   What happened to Jake Thackray?

   • Seeing him perform live you would wonder if he was able to keep up with demands of the tune, but his music drives the song on with an occasional pause here or a complex chord sequence there to add to the mood and meaning. Jake Thackray gave up performing in the 1990s and died on Christmas Eve 2002 at the age of 64.

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   Who is Jake Thackray & John Watterson?

   • Beware of the Bull - The Enigmatic Genius of Jake Thackray Paul Thompson & John Watterson (Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd.) His first two albums were granted four stars by Billboard. The Miami News described his second LP as “one of the greatest disks of the year.” He earned Stateside comparisons to Tom Lehrer and Noel Coward.

   Jake Thackray biography reveals hilarious and heartbreaking story of a

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   Who is John Philip Thackray?

   • John Philip Thackray was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Ernest Thackray, a policeman, and Ivy May Thackray, née Armitage. He was educated at the Jesuit St. Michael's College in Leeds and St David's College, a Catholic boarding seminary in Dolgellau, north-west Wales.

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   John Philip "Jake" Thackray (27 February 1938 – 24 December 2002) was an English singer-songwriter, poet, humourist and journalist. Best known in the late 1960s and early 1970s for his topical comedy songs performed on British television, his work ranged from satirical to bawdy to sentimental to pastoral, with a strong emphasis on ...

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   About Jake Thackray. Jake Thackray was a singer-songwriter in the French tradition, a “chansonnier” whose songs are nevertheless convincingly and idiosyncratically English. This is scarcely surprising.

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   Aug 17, 2022 · Jake Thackray biography reveals hilarious and heartbreaking story of a gifted composer. 'Beware of the Bull: The Enigmatic Genius of Jake Thackray' centers on one of British songwriting's most gifted composers. Even John Lennon thought he was fab. Dave Thompson. Aug 17, 2022.

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   Jake Thackray at the BBC makes available on DVD, for the first time, fifty-six performances, covering Jake’s career from 1968 to 1985. The footage, most of which hasn’t seen the light of day for half a century, includes rare and previously unreleased songs, and everything that is known to survive in the BBC archives.

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   Feb 23, 2021 · Jake Thackray details the place where the small, the humdrum, and the grotesque intermingle, like the shepherdess frozen with her sheep, the wretched pub-goers’s wrecked lament, the deviant cockerel, and the park statues that spring to life after dark.

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   Aug 27, 2022 · King Of The Yard: The Curious Pedigree Of Jake Thackray. Paul Thompson and John Watterson’s biography of Jake Thackray attempts to tease out his many contradictions and square the man with the music. Will Ainsley reads on again, on again.

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   Jun 9, 2022 · The book reveals a life as extraordinary as his writing: the hard childhood in the terraces of Leeds, remarkable Catholic education and formative years in France and war-torn Algeria; the first career as an inspirational, unorthodox, highly creative teacher; the meteoric development as a writer and performer, and discovery by the BBC; the Abbey ...