This brought tears to my eyes. How well I remember him in Leicester Square busking outside the cinemas and theatres. We always chatted, you’d be surprised how many folk turned away but he was real entertainment. I miss those days. You don’t really see spontaneous buskers now. They all have sterile station spots. Happy memories
I've got the whole documentary on DVD from Amazon, I remember watching it in about 1981 one weekday morning on Granada (ITV) when I was on the summer holidays from college when I was 17. It always stuck in my mind. It shows 29 Hanbury Street, one of the sites of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888 - the house and back yard were still there in 1967 when this documentary was made - it reminds me of older parts of Manchester I can remember as a small child in the late 1960's and early 1970's - similar to the East End of London at that time.
The tap dancer is famous in Belgium for being the "frontman" of a pop band, "The Veterans", who had some success in the early 80's. He seems to have pursued his career until the very end. Read www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/685975.missing-busker-95-slept-thames
LOVE this!! Thanks for posting it. The way James Mason's narrates it makes him sound like he's David Attenborough talking about some rare species of animal,priceless!! P.S. Alan's still a genius!
Yes. Lord Mustard. He was a regular in The Salisbury pub in Covent Garden. Had the pleasure of meeting him there. He would strike up a conversation with you and tell the greatest stories. When he finished you felt obliged to buy him a pint. I'm sure he would drink for free all night! 🤣
'Not more than a dozen left in London' not sure about that, there was probably hundreds of them, the guitar man is bob young 'breakfast on pluto' who started playing with don partridge around this time, in and around Leicester Square, see the documentary about don partridge on RUclips, very interesting indeed!...
This brought tears to my eyes. How well I remember him in Leicester Square busking outside the cinemas and theatres. We always chatted, you’d be surprised how many folk turned away but he was real entertainment. I miss those days. You don’t really see spontaneous buskers now. They all have sterile station spots. Happy memories
I've got the whole documentary on DVD from Amazon, I remember watching it in about 1981 one weekday morning on Granada (ITV) when I was on the summer holidays from college when I was 17. It always stuck in my mind. It shows 29 Hanbury Street, one of the sites of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888 - the house and back yard were still there in 1967 when this documentary was made - it reminds me of older parts of Manchester I can remember as a small child in the late 1960's and early 1970's - similar to the East End of London at that time.
The tap dancer is famous in Belgium for being the "frontman" of a pop band, "The Veterans", who had some success in the early 80's. He seems to have pursued his career until the very end. Read www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/685975.missing-busker-95-slept-thames
LOVE this!! Thanks for posting it. The way James Mason's narrates it makes him sound like he's David Attenborough talking about some rare species of animal,priceless!!
P.S. Alan's still a genius!
What's Alan's full name? Legend.
@@thomasbellwood4017 The two of them are called Norman Norris and Alan Young.
This was Lord Mustard. I remember him busking in Glasgow in the 80s
I recall this gentlemen busking outside the west end theatres in London in the late 80s.
He lived on Oxford for many years also....back in the 1980's & 90's.
Yes. Lord Mustard. He was a regular in The Salisbury pub in Covent Garden. Had the pleasure of meeting him there. He would strike up a conversation with you and tell the greatest stories. When he finished you felt obliged to buy him a pint. I'm sure he would drink for free all night! 🤣
I'm sure that busker tape dancer used to dance outside m and s in Oxford during the 90s
Brilliant!
Fucking love this doco, best sequence.
Jumpin' Jack and Alan Young with the top hat, Alan busked a lot with Don Partridge back in the day, good times 🌀😀☯️
They would have been perfect for Stiff Records !
he used to tap dance outside marks and sparks oxford street in the mid 90s then pop into a local pub where he would exchange all his coins for notes.
I was in that game me self once
At 2:33 is that man in the mac, Robert Mitcham, 'smoking something'?...
please never remove this buddy..... have you got the whole doc?????
Good Video
'Not more than a dozen left in London' not sure about that, there was probably hundreds of them, the guitar man is bob young 'breakfast on pluto' who started playing with don partridge around this time, in and around Leicester Square, see the documentary about don partridge on RUclips, very interesting indeed!...
His name was Alan Young by the way, not Bob and he still plays occasionally at gatherings in the Brentford area of London.
@boomboxbadboy1 Isn't it fantastic? And yes, I have.
10 years for me to respond, haha