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Former Best Minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past in order to the richly colourful storyline of the British isles music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, class-conscious, but always patriotic and on the side of the underdog, it kept a reflection to the followers' hopes and worries - and sometimes the general absurdity of life. Vast, smoke-filled auditoriums were stuffed night after night time in practically every town and city in Britain. The most popular performers, such as Marie Lloyd, Vesta Tilley and George Robey, were among the highest paid and most celebrated information in the land.This was the entire world that John Major's dad, Tom, came into at the age of 21 as a comedian and vocalist. In My Old Man, the former excellent minister uses his father's storyline as a springboard for revealing the entertaining record of the music hall - from its origins in Elizabethan times to its heyday in the nineteenth century and eventual decrease with the climb of radio and movie theater in the twentieth century. Filled with anecdotes about the great performers of the day, this warm-hearted record conjures up a lost age.
