Jake Thackray – so frightfully lah-di-dah

Thackray grew to dislike the songs with easy laughs, waiting for something more profound.
PHOTO: ALAMY, MAURICE SAVAGE

He was a much-loved man of immense gifts whose quirky and dolorous songs made him a television star in the 1970s. But then, mysteriously, he drifted out of the limelight.

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