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Beware of the Bull: The Enigmatic Genius of Jake Thackray

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Thankfully, as Thackray would have preferred (being surely embarrassed at the very notion of a biography), there are no weighty codas or unnecessary prologues that describe the state of the nation or Thackray’s far-reaching impact on musicians today. He was never a crowd-pleasing ‘act’ seeking to charm the punters with his magnetic show-biz personality, as can be gathered from his opening line at a night-club in Newcastle in 1969: “Hello, my name is Jake Thackray and I sing songs about the human condition. in which the song’s protagonist, a self-confessed misogynist, complains about certain women’s propensity to talk at length (“I love breasts and arms and ankles, elbows, knees / It’s the tongue, the tongue, the tongue on a woman that spoils the job for me”). In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. He stopped taking care of business - was never very good at it - stopped even turning up for bookings, and slipped from being a social drinker into a problem drinker into outright, catastrophic alcoholism, bankruptcy and the end of his marriage, dying alone in a rented flat at only 64.

Those lads, by now they’re out to the bus stop…So in a spirit of politeness you carry on clapping for a bit…there’s the last few claps in you and suddenly we come swerving back on here and you’ve got to start all over again. I sometimes wonder if it was the recklessness of a lifestyle he was denied, breaking out from that religious encumbrance.lambasts only “some women” who talk too much, and that he might “cheerfully have done it about a bloke” This defence falls rather flat when you imagine it extrapolated to other jokes stereotyping different minorities. The story of Jake’s own life is a truly fascinating one, and the first ever biography, ‘Beware of the Bull – The enigmatic genius of Jake Thackray’ has been written with the full support of the Thackray family and has been received with critical acclaim.

On 28 October 1973, Jake Thackray played a concert in Cardiff together with his 'hero' Georges Brassens. The show will include performances of many of Jake’s most popular songs – Bantam Cock, Sister Josephine, On Again! Though in a performance at the Cambridge Folk Festival he looks magnificent - giant, chiselled, veins popping out of brawny forearms from the exertion of those quicksilver guitar parts - he’s also pouring with sweat, voice occasionally cracking, his fear occasionally revealed by equine whites of eyes. His beautiful songs combine the cynical and the sentimental, the poetic and the profane, warmth and acerbity, subversive social comment with bawdy celebration of the life force.Then, of course, there is Sister Josephine, a brilliantly accomplished tale of an escaped burglar who has been hiding out in a nunnery for fifteen years disguised as one of the Sisters, has introduced them to pontoon and --it has been noticed-- is oddly hirsute compared with the other nuns. Ernest Thackray’s run-in with a local big-wig over a traffic incident during the course of his duties led to his demotion (according to family legend), which had a financial impact on the family and seemingly forever made Jake resentful of establishment figures blinded by their self-importance -- hence Thackray`s later warning to his audience to beware the nonsense (he used a less polite word) spouted by figures whom he describes only by their honorific titles. 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. A year after the release of Bantam Cock came an event which, for Thackray, was the highlight of his career. We give people around the world the opportunity to contribute to the circular economy, earn money and protect the planet, by trading their unwanted books and media.

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