Why Hillary needs to lift the hearts of the audience, music hall-style
This starts with John Major and the pussies. A first for the Irish Examiner, we modestly point out. Now, the younger, newer readers may not be desperately familiar with John Major, so let us introduce him as a former Conservative leader in Britain, and a prime minister who was a gift to satirical TV programmes because he was so respectably, blandly, boringly grey.
What wasn’t generally known at the time was that Major was the only son of two music hall artists, who travelled the roads of Britain before his birth and afterwards, entertaining thousands in local Hippodromes. This left Major with a love for, and insight into, music hall which led him, after he retired from politics, to write an excellent book about that now dead form of entertainment and some of its outstanding stars.
