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My Old Man
Former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental vulgar but patriotic and champion of the underdog it held a mirror to the audiences hopes fears and the general absurdity of life. Vast smoke-filled auditoriums were packed every night throughout Britain. Popular performers such as Marie Lloyd and Vesta Tilley were among the highest-paid and most celebrated figures in the land. This was the world that John Majors father Tom entered at the age of twenty-one as a comedian and singer. In My Old Man the former prime minister tells his fathers story as a springboard for an entertaining history of the music hall from
its origins in Elizabethan times through to its heyday in the nineteenth century and eventual decline with the rise of radio and cinema in the twentieth century. Packed with colourful anecdotes this warm-hearted account captures a golden bygone age of entertainment.
its origins in Elizabethan times through to its heyday in the nineteenth century and eventual decline with the rise of radio and cinema in the twentieth century. Packed with colourful anecdotes this warm-hearted account captures a golden bygone age of entertainment.
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