...d Keith Smith's ''Hefty Jazz'' among others, and playing live with touring artists.<ref name="Larkin" /> He was appointed an [[w:Order of the British Empire|O [[Category:Black Lion Records artists]]

...lasted only a week. Returning to [[Brighton]], he saw an advertisement for artists to join Jack Sheppard's concert party in an alfresco theatre on Brighton be ...hem. In 1953, he changed to [[Philips Records|Philips]], and then to [[Pye Records|Pye]].

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...ake the humour of Pete and Dud further on [[gramophone record|long-playing records]] as [[Derek and Clive]]. [[Chris Blackwell]] circulated [[Bootleg recordin | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited

...r the first time.<ref name=Faith/> The brothers became the main bookers of artists for the [[London Palladium]] in 1948, then managed by [[Val Parnell]] for t ...[Sony/ATV Music Publishing|ATV Music]] and gained a half interest in [[Pye Records]] in 1959;<ref>Louis Barfe [https://books.google.com/books?id=AhLwEqh8xlkC&

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...= [[w:Alternative comedy|Alternative comedy]], [[w:black comedy|black comedy]], [[w:character comedy|character comedy]], [[w:physical comedy|phys ...ation. He had appeared in the final episode of the first series of ''[[The Black Adder|Blackadder]]'' (1983) as "Mad Gerald". He returned to play [[Lord Fla

...he revels at Grafton's on a Sunday night," said Secombe years later.<ref>''Artists and Raspberries'', Pan; 1997. P72</ref> They took to calling themselves "Th ...ne.' Inside, he had a full manic episode, including a hallucination that a lion was sitting on the wardrobe."</ref> The BBC however made sure he was surrou

...mby found the imitation difficult and had to learn his father's songs from records, and the rest of his act and jokes from his mother.<ref name="Skinner docu" ...}} That changed in 1932, when Formby signed a three-year deal with [[Decca Records]]. One of the songs he recorded in July was "Chinese Laundry Blues", tellin

...ut returned to Britain soon after. While he was with the [[Central Pool of Artists]] (a group he described as composed "of bomb-happy [[squaddie]]s") he began Even late in life, Milligan's [[black humour]] had not deserted him. After the death of [[Harry Secombe]] from ca

...trasting temperaments and styles. [[w:Satire|Satire]] and [[w:black comedy|black humour]] were major features of many of his films, and his performances had ...k came in 1950, where he dubbed the voice of [[Alfonso Bedoya]] in ''[[The Black Rose]]''.{{sfn|Lewis|1995|p=284}} He continued to work with Bentine, Millig

In 1919, Chaplin co-founded distribution company [[United Artists]], which gave him complete control over his films. His first feature-length ...came to light which claimed that he had been born in a Gypsy caravan at [[Black Patch Park]] in [[Smethwick]], Staffordshire (part of Birmingham at the tim