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Title:Tommy Cooper Size:A4 portrait (21.5 cms x 29.7 cms)"I'm on whisky diet... last week I lost 3 days!" More Details -
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Title:Sid James Size:25cm x 40cm Portrait'Yak Yak Yak' or indeed 'phwoah' or actually 'Blimey'... You get the idea. 'Carry on Dick' himself More Details -
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Title:Willem deKooning Size:A4 portrait (21.5 cms x 29.7 cms)Willem deKooning, Abstract Expressionist. More Details -
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Title:Ian Fleming Size:A4Ian Fleming two colour portrait lived in St Margarets Bay near Dover in Noel Coward's old house on More Details -
Title:Thom Yorke Size:A2 portrait (image area)Thom Yorke, ubba cool Radiohead front man and deep thinker... I think More Details -
Title:Happy Christmas Your Arse Size:A4 or postcard sizeSeasonal Image... at Christmas anyhow, of Shane Macgowan from The Pogues. This 2 colour portrait More Details -
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Title:Harry Palmer Size:21cms x 29.7cms (A4 portrait)Micheal Caine as Harry Palmer, 60's spy icon. More Details -
Title:Francis Bacon outside Reece Mews Size:19.5cms x 14.5cmsStudio transported to live in Dublin. More Details -
Title:Chet Baker with Trumpet Size:31.5cm x 39.5cmlived the jazz dream... dying in Amsterdam falling from a window. I know someone who said he was More Details -
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Title:Blacking Up Size:A4 portrait (21.5 cms x 29.7 cms)Taa Naa. I'm bemused by the whole 'Black and White Minstral' concept? More Details -
Title:Eric Campbell Chaplins Villain Size:A4 portrait 21.5 cms x 29.7 cmsGoogle him then you will remember who he is. More Details -
Title:Beast From The East Size:A4 portrait (29.7 cms x 21.0 cms)Nikolai Valuev 7ft Russian Heavyweight Champ also hunts Bears. More Details -
Title:Mark E Smith In Salford Size:A4 portrait (21.5 cms x 29.7 cms)Mark E Smith and The Fall... More Details -
Title:Hunter S Thompson Smoking Size:A4 portrait (21.5 cms x 29.7 cms)Hunter S Thompson Smoking. More Details -
Title:Jack Russell Size:A4 portrait (21.5 cms x 29.7 cms)Another kind of portrait... I'd be happy to do more dogs. More Details -
Title:Henry Cooper Size:21.4cm x 31.8cmOur 'Enry. The only man to ever put Ali on the floor. What a gent! More Details -
Title:Ian Curtis Size:A4 portrait 21.5 cms x 29.7 cmsIan Curtis hung himself in the kitchen, young man's folly. More Details -
Title:Somerset Maugham Size:A4 portrait (21.5 cms x 29.7 cms)Somerset Maugham grew up in Whitstable. A great face to linocut. More Details -
Title:Elvis Presley Singing Size:21.5 cms x 29.7 cms"Thanyo vury mush" < click the image More Details -
Title:Ian Dury at Kings Cross Size:380mm x 620mmIan Dury, with a connection with Canterbury where he used to teach art. < click the print More Details -
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Title:The Naughty Nurse and The Old Soldier Size:53 cm x 48 cmHattie Jacques and John Le Mesurier, the odd couple. More Details -
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Taa Naa. I'm bemused by the whole 'Black and White Minstral' concept?
The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran on BBC television from 1958 to 1978 and was a popular stage show. It was a weekly light entertainment and variety show presenting traditional American minstrel and country songs, as well as show and music hall numbers, usually performed in blackface, and with lavish costumes. By 1964, audiences were regularly exceeding 18 million.
The show's premise began to be seen as offensive on account of its portrayal of blacked-up characters behaving in a stereotypical manner and a petition against it was received by the BBC in 1967. In 1969, due to continuing accusations of racism, Music Music Music, a spin-off series in which the minstrels appeared without their blackface make-up, replaced The Black and White Minstrel Show. It failed badly, was cancelled after 10 episodes and The Black and White Minstrel Show returned to win back viewers.
Since its cancellation, The Black and White Minstrel Show has come to be seen more widely as an embarrassment, despite its huge popularity at the time.[