Jake Thackray: Jake In A Box/Live Performance
Daryl Easlea, bbc.co.uk, 2006
AFTER HIS LATE '60s and early '70s heyday, when he could be found on national telly and Royal Variety Shows with his hilarious vignettes of life and love, Jake Thackray's death in 2002 went largely unreported, having retired from the music business around a decade earlier.
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