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A review by kjcharles
My Old Man: A Personal Journey Into Music Hall by John Major
4.0
An excellent overview of music hall. Written with great affection and warmth. The chapters about his dad's career, Marie Lloyd and bizarre music hall, in particular, were really engaging and interesting. Lots of great quotes.
I recall the hard time Major got from braying Oxbridge twats on both sides of the political spectrum when his background became known. This book, shamelessly in favour of popular taste ahgainst highbrow sneers, is a terrific belated two fingers to the sneerers and snobs.
I wish the ebook had had the illustrations integrated and I'm baffled why the publishers found it necessary to include a print index with page numbers, plus a helpful warning that this is useless on ereaders. And I resent my Amazon recommendations now being full of the malevolent gurning features of the rest of the 1990s Tories. But otherwise, this is great. (If only the skill and deep humanity shown in this book had been more of a feature of his premiership...)
I recall the hard time Major got from braying Oxbridge twats on both sides of the political spectrum when his background became known. This book, shamelessly in favour of popular taste ahgainst highbrow sneers, is a terrific belated two fingers to the sneerers and snobs.
I wish the ebook had had the illustrations integrated and I'm baffled why the publishers found it necessary to include a print index with page numbers, plus a helpful warning that this is useless on ereaders. And I resent my Amazon recommendations now being full of the malevolent gurning features of the rest of the 1990s Tories. But otherwise, this is great. (If only the skill and deep humanity shown in this book had been more of a feature of his premiership...)