"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness." Leon Trotsky
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Yes. I watched him on Top Of The Pops as a child. he was barking
Of course I remember, being of the 6th decade. There survives a monochrome TV clip of Arthur in performance with a nasty brushfire on the cranium, nearly having to leave the stage. No 'health and safety' in those days!
The songwriter wrote, I think, little else and by virtue of the royalties was able to lead a quiet and blameless life for many years in a tranquil corner of Kentish Town.
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