Very fine LES DAWSON signed 8" x 10" photograph
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LesDawson (1934-1993) Great Manchester-born comedian. Dawson rose to fame with jokes insulting his wife and the mother-in-law, a staple but un-PC brand of British humour. He left the Army after his National Service and as he had had a short story published he moved to Paris to become a writer. What in fact happened was he started to play the piano in a brothel to pay the bills (although for weeks he thought it was nothing more than a cabaret club!) His act turned the corner when he was engaged at a Hull club, and after a whole week of performances, he got drunk at before the last, and came on bemoaning life, and slumped over the piano. “ I don't have to do this for a living, I just do it for the luxuries like bread and shoes ”. On this a new act was born Dawson entered Opportunity Knocks! in1967 and won. He never looked back. His ITV series Sez Lez followed and then in 1971 a Royal Variety Performance. Various other series followed, both on ITV and the BBC, and he hosted Blankety Blank after Terry Wogan. Not being content with just TV, he also made radio shows, and wrote several novels and two volumes of biography.This is a very fine black and white Walkerprint publicity photograph (8" x 10"), showing Les in a typically lugubrious pose, nicely signed in black ink across the image. Part of the first letter of his first name is
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