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Article: Shock death of flat cap 'bard' ENTERTAINMENT: Tributes paid to Black Country comic legend
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- August 22, 2007
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LEGENDARY Black Country entertainer Harry Harrison has died
suddenly after collapsing at home.
The self-styled Bard of the Black Country - a founder member of
the original Black Country Night Out touring show in the 70s - was
rushed to Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, last night after collapsing
at his home in Bradleys Lane, Wallbrook, Coseley.
The veteran entertainer and comic poet, who was 85, was one of the
best known faces on the Black Country comedy circuit, always wearing
a cloth cap. He made his name in the 1960s when he used to visit pubs
and clubs across the Black Country, writing articles on the local
characters in Black Country dialect, under the heading Off the Cuff
Black ...