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Title: My Old Man
Author: John Major
Narrator: John Major, Roy Hudd
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-18-12
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Political Figures
Summary:
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, class-conscious, but always patriotic and on the side of the underdog, it held a mirror to the audiences hopes and fears - and sometimes the general absurdity of life. Vast, smoke-filled auditoriums were packed night after night in nearly every town and city in Britain. The most popular performers, such as Marie Lloyd, Vesta Tilley and George Robey, 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 21 as a comedian and singer. In My Old Man, the former prime minister uses his fathers story as a springboard for telling the 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 anecdotes about the great performers of the day, this warm-hearted history conjures up a lost age.
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