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As a comedian, he played to millions over half a century, including a record-breaking 35-week run at the London Palladium, but he also had a hugely lucrative sideline as a recording artist with many hits, most notably “Happiness” and “Tears”.
Nov 14, 2019 · A very well researched and conscientiously written biography. Louis Barfe explains why Ken Dodd could entertain for four hours or more a sellout audience in a surreal world of happiness not knowing why they were laughing their socks off.
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Jan 4, 2020 · Book review by Steve Bennett. When Ashtar Al Khirshan was making a serious-minded profile of Ken Dodd for the BBC’s Arena arts strand in 2007, the director kept pushing to find out what was going on behind that clownish exterior of bedraggled hair, buck teeth, wide-eyes, scruffy clobber and ever-present tickling stick.
Happiness and Tears by Louis Barfe review — Ken Dodd, the last of a breed. The comedian had no ambition beyond wanting to keep up a nonstop barrage of terrible jokes, says Roger Lewis....
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Nov 26, 2019 · ‘Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story’ by Louis Barfe is an Apollo book, first published in the UK November 14th 2019, and is available from all the usual outlets.
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Reviews for Happiness and Tears: 'The definitive account' The Times. 'An industriously thorough, entertaining biography' The Spectator. 'Sure to delight Dodd's many admirers' TLS.
