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Jon Millington's avatar

Music hall theatricality is a fine British pop tradition, but it didn’t survive Vindaloo by Fat Les. That was the end.

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Tobias Sturt's avatar

Vindaloo by Fat Les was the end of many things. I suspect a great many ills can be traced back to its deleterious effect on the national digestive system.

But you have reminded me that I meant to include something about how Dury was picking up on the tradition of the patter song that Coward was also working in

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