Saturday, February 25, 2012

Angry Old Man

Tom Courtenay turns 75 today, but I still think of him as the "Angry Young Man" in those early 60s British movies The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and Billy Liar.

Around the same time, he appeared in a TV play where he sang a song that would become a #1 hit for Herman's Hermits.  I didn't even know it was available, but here it is (with photos from Billy Liar):



I gotta admit, HH does it better--but then, music wasn't Sir Tom's specialty:

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