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Jake Thackray

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John Philip "Jake" Thackray (27 February 1938 – 24 December 2002) was an English singer-songwriter, poet and journalist. [1]

103 relations: Abbey Road, Abbey Road Studios, Alan Plater, Alex Turner (musician), Algeria, Algerian War, AllMusic, Alternative comedy, Angelus, Bantam Cock, Baritone, Barnsley, BBC, Bernard Braden, Bill Tidy, Bramley, Leeds, Brittany, Cardiff, Chansonnier (singer), Charles Trenet, Cider with Rosie, Classical guitar, Comedy, David Frost, Dictionary of National Biography, Dolgellau, Durham University, EMI, England, English language, Europe, Far East, Flanders and Swann, Folk music, France, Fred Wedlock, Georges Brassens, Guitar, HMV, Ian McMillan (poet), ITV (TV network), Jacques Brel, Jake in a Box, Jake Thackray and Songs, Jake's Progress (album), Jarvis Cocker, Jasper Carrott, John Osborne, Journalist, Kirkstall, ..., Lah-Di-Dah, Laurie Lee, Leeds, Lille, Linda Thompson (singer), Live Performance, London Palladium, Margaret Thatcher, Mike Harding, Milton Keynes, Momus (musician), Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Morrissey, Noël Coward, Norman Newell, North America, On Again! On Again!, Oxford University Press, Poet, Punk rock, Pyrenees, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Ralph McTell, Randy Newman, Richard Thompson (musician), Royal Variety Performance, Sherman Theatre, Show business, Singer-songwriter, Singing, Society of Jesus, South Wales, South Wales Argus, That's Life!, The Beatles, The Corries, The Daily Telegraph, The Entertainer (film), The Guardian, The Independent, The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray, The Listener (magazine), The Stables, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Very Best of Jake Thackray, The Yorkshire Post, Victor Lewis-Smith, Wavendon, West Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire, 1975 in music. Expand index (53 more) »

Abbey Road

Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969 by Apple Records.

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Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly known as EMI Recording Studios) is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England.

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Alan Plater

Alan Frederick Plater CBE FRSL (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s.

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Alex Turner (musician)

Alexander David Turner (born 6 January 1986) is an English musician.

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Algeria

Algeria (الجزائر, familary Algerian Arabic الدزاير; ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ; Dzayer; Algérie), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a sovereign state in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast.

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Algerian War

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative comedy

Alternative comedy is a term coined in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era but can also be found in cartoons.

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Angelus

The Angelus (Latin for "angel") is a Catholic devotion commemorating the Incarnation.

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Bantam Cock

Bantam Cock is the third studio album by Jake Thackray.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.

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Barnsley

Barnsley (locally) is a town in South Yorkshire, England, located halfway between Leeds and Sheffield.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bernard Braden

Bernard Chastey Braden (16 May 1916 – 2 February 1993) was a Canadian-born actor and comedian, who is best known for his appearances in UK television and radio shows.

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Bill Tidy

William Edward "Bill" Tidy, MBE (born 9 October 1933), is a British cartoonist, writer and television personality, known chiefly for his comic strips.

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Bramley, Leeds

Bramley is a district in west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne; Breizh, pronounced or; Gallo: Bertaèyn, pronounced) is a cultural region in the northwest of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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Chansonnier (singer)

A chansonnier (female: chansonnière) was a poet songwriter, solitary singer, who sang his or her own songs (chansons) with a guitar, prominent in francophone countries during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Charles Trenet

Louis Charles Auguste Claude Trenet, known as Charles Trenet (18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001), was a French singer and songwriter.

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Cider with Rosie

Cider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England, 1960).

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Classical guitar

The classical guitar (also known as concert guitar, classical acoustic, nylon-string guitar, or Spanish guitar) is the member of the guitar family used in classical music.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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David Frost

Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

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Dolgellau

Dolgellau (formerly Dolgell(e)y; see below) is a market town and Community in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, lying on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach.

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Durham University

Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, North East England, with a second campus in Stockton-on-Tees.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Far East

The Far East is a geographical term in English that usually refers to East Asia (including Northeast Asia), the Russian Far East (part of North Asia), and Southeast Asia.

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Flanders and Swann

Flanders and Swann were a British comedy duo.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Fred Wedlock

Fred Wedlock (23 May 1942 – 4 March 2010) was a folk singer best known for his UK hit single "The Oldest Swinger In Town".

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Georges Brassens

Georges Brassens (22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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HMV

HMV Retail Ltd. is an entertainment retailing company (registered in England) operating in the United Kingdom.

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Ian McMillan (poet)

Ian McMillan (born 21 January 1956) is an English poet, journalist, playwright, and broadcaster.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Jacques Brel

Jacques Romain Georges Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer, songwriter, poet, actor and director who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, later throughout the world.

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Jake in a Box

Jake in a Box is a 4-CD box set retrospective of the songs of Jake Thackray, recorded by EMI from 1967 to 1976.

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Jake Thackray and Songs

Jake Thackray and Songs was a six-part television series recorded in 1980 and broadcast on BBC2 in 1981, in which Jake Thackray and guests performed songs live in a variety of venues.

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Jake's Progress (album)

Jake's Progress is the second album by Jake Thackray.

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Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician, actor and presenter.

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Jasper Carrott

Jasper Carrott, OBE (born Robert Norman Davis; 14 March 1945) is an English comedian, actor, television presenter, and personality.

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John Osborne

John James Osborne (Fulham, London, 12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter and actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.

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Kirkstall

Kirkstall is a north-western suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, on the eastern side of the River Aire.

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Lah-Di-Dah

Lah-Di-Dah is a compilation album by Jake Thackray, released by EMI on LP and CD (with bonus tracks) in 1991.

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Laurie Lee

Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Lille

Lille (Rijsel; Rysel) is a city at the northern tip of France, in French Flanders.

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Linda Thompson (singer)

Linda Thompson (née Pettifer, 23 August 1947) is an English folk rock singer.

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Live Performance

Live Performance is a live album by Jake Thackray.

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London Palladium

The London Palladium is a 2,286-seat Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street in the City of Westminster.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Mike Harding

Mike Harding (born 23 October 1944) is an English singer, songwriter, comedian, author, poet, broadcaster and multi-instrumentalist.

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Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes, locally abbreviated to MK, is a large townAlthough Milton Keynes was specified to be a city in scale and the term "city" is used locally (inter alia to avoid confusion with its constituent towns), formally this title cannot be used.

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Momus (musician)

Nicholas "Nick" Currie (born 11 February 1960), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a Scottish songwriter, author, blogger and former journalist for Wired.

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Monmouth

Monmouth (Trefynwy meaning "town on the Monnow") is the historic county town of Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy) is a county in south east Wales.

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Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Norman Newell

Norman Newell OBE (25 January 1919 – 1 December 2004) was a Golden Globe award winning English record producer, mainly active in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as co-writer of many notable songs.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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On Again! On Again!

On Again! On Again! is the fourth studio album by Jake Thackray.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Pyrenees

The Pyrenees (Pirineos, Pyrénées, Pirineus, Pirineus, Pirenèus, Pirinioak) is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between Spain and France.

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Queen Elizabeth Hall

The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England, that hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances.

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Ralph McTell

Ralph McTell (born Ralph May, 3 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s.

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Randy Newman

Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his distinctive voice, mordant (and often satirical) pop songs, and for film scores.

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Richard Thompson (musician)

Richard Thompson, OBE (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Royal Variety Performance

The Royal Variety Performance is a televised variety show held annually in the United Kingdom to raise money for the Royal Variety Charity (of which Queen Elizabeth II is life-patron).

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Sherman Theatre

The Sherman Theatre is a venue in the Cathays district of Cardiff.

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Show business

Show business, sometimes shortened to show biz or showbiz (since 1945), is a vernacular term for all aspects of the entertainment industry.

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Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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South Wales

South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.

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South Wales Argus

The South Wales Argus is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Newport, South Wales.

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That's Life!

That's Life! was a magazine-style television series on BBC1 between 26 May 1973 and 19 June 1994, presented by Esther Rantzen throughout the entire run, with various changes of co-presenters.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Corries

The Corries were a Scottish folk group that emerged from the Scottish folk revival of the early 1960s.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Entertainer (film)

The Entertainer is a 1960 drama film directed by Tony Richardson, based on the stage play of the same name by John Osborne.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray

The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray is the debut album by Jake Thackray.

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The Listener (magazine)

The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in January 1929 which ceased publication in 1991.

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The Stables

The Stables (also known as the Stables Theatre) is a music venue situated in Wavendon, a small village on the south-east edge of Milton Keynes.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Very Best of Jake Thackray

The Very Best of Jake Thackray is a compilation album by Jake Thackray, released by EMI on LP in 1975, and with a different track list on CD in 2003.

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The Yorkshire Post

The Yorkshire Post is a daily broadsheet newspaper, published in Leeds in northern England.

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Victor Lewis-Smith

Victor Lewis-Smith is a British film, television and radio producer, a TV and restaurant critic and newspaper columnist.

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Wavendon

Wavendon is a village and civil parish in the south east of the Borough of Milton Keynes and ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England.

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West Riding of Yorkshire

The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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1975 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1975.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Thackray

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