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Jake Thackray
John Philip "Jake" Thackray (27 February 1938 – 24 December 2002) was an English singer-songwriter, poet and journalist. Best known in the late 1960s and early 1970s for his topical comedy songs performed on British television, his work ranged from satirical to bawdy to sentimental to pastoral, with a strong emphasis on storytelling, making him difficult to pigeonhole.〔Andrew Hickey, ("''Jake in a Box'': Jake Thackray reconsidered" ), ''The High Hat'', accessed 14 March 2009〕〔Martin Newell, ("The legend of Jake" ), ''The Independent'', 8 May 2005, accessed 4 April 2009〕〔Alan Franks, ("Living out of the box" ), ''The Times'', 19 August 2006, accessed 4 April 2009〕〔Lance Bosman, ("Jake Thackray: a modern minstrel" ), ''Guitar Magazine'', April 1979, accessed 8 April 2009〕
Thackray sang in a lugubrious baritone voice,〔(Obituary: Jake Thackray ), ''The Guardian'', 28 December 2002〕 accompanying himself on a nylon-strung guitar in a style that was part classical, part jazz.〔(Obituary: Jake Thackray ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 29 December 2002〕 His witty lyrics and clipped delivery, combined with his strong Yorkshire accent and the northern setting of many of his songs, led to him being described as the "North Country Noël Coward", a comparison Thackray resisted, although he acknowledged his lyrics were in the English tradition of Coward and Flanders and Swann, "who are wordy, funny writers". However, his tunes derived from the French ''chansonnier'' tradition: he claimed Georges Brassens as his greatest inspiration,〔Spencer Leigh, (Jake Thackray obituary ), ''The Independent'', 28 December 2002, accessed 14 March 2009〕 and he was also influenced by Jacques Brel and Charles Trenet.〔Martin Newell, ("Jake, the Yorkshire Chansonnier" ), June 2006, accessed 8 April 2009〕 He also admired Randy Newman.〔 He was admired by, and influenced, many performers including Jarvis Cocker,〔AA Gill, ("In a class of his own" ), ''The Sunday Times'', 12 November 2006, accessed 19 March 2009〕 Mike Harding,〔("My Yorkshire: Mike Harding" ), ''Yorkshire Post'', 19 April 2008, accessed 19 March 2009〕 Momus,〔Momus, ("Le Grand Jake: Jake Thackray Remembered" ), 27 December 2002, accessed 19 March 2009〕 Ralph McTell,〔Ralph McTell, ("Jake Thackray (old love)" ), accessed 19 March 2009〕 Morrissey,〔David Bret, ''Morrissey: Scandal & Passion'', Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, p. 73〕 Alex Turner, and Jasper Carrott.〔Jasper Carrott, , accessed 7 September 2011〕
==Early life==
John Philip Thackray was born in Kirkstall, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire,〔 the son of Ernest Thackray, a policeman, and Ivy May Thackray, née Armitage.〔Robb Johnson, "Thackray, John Philip () (1938–2002)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', online edn, Oxford University Press, January 2006; online edn, January 2009, (accessed 19 April 2009 )〕 He was educated at the Jesuit St. Michael's College in Leeds〔 and a Jesuit boarding school in Dolgellau, north-west Wales, and considered joining the priesthood,〔 but instead chose to study Modern Languages at Durham University.〔 After graduation he spent four years teaching English, mainly in France – in Lille, Brittany and the Pyrenees – but also including six months in Algeria at the height of the war for independence in 1961–1962. During his time in France he had some of his poetry published,〔John Carlsen, (Sleeve notes to ''The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray'' ), 1967, reproduced at jakethackray.com, accessed 14 March 2009〕 and discovered the ''chansonnier'' tradition and in particular the work of Georges Brassens. "I missed out on rock and all my influences were French," he would later say.〔
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