Hi – just joined forum. I’m not a Thackeray fan yet, but I am on the road to being one.
I’d listened to some of his songs about 5 years ago and enjoyed them. Someone at church has reintroduced me to him and I gave him a listen again last night. This time round I thought – wow this is more than just good. Me and my partner are big Morrisey fans and we both soon recognised similarities between the two artists. We thought that it was very probable that Thackeray was an influence – and today (Wikipedia is my friend) I was proven right.
My students have just been complaining that I put Lah-Di-Dah on for the warm-up, but I think they liked it really.