Today I discovered…

#hmhb lyrics in peer-reviewed papers

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230583580_8

‘I Could Have Been Like Lou Barlow, But I’m More Like Ken Barlow’: Long-Stayers as Heroes or Failures

In the long-running British TV soap Coronation Street, there is one character, Ken Barlow, who has been there from the beginning. He was seen in the first episode in 1960 as a new university graduate, the first in the street, returning to his family in Weatherfield a...

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@drunkenmadman Wow! Layers of new information! I'd heard of Coronation Street, but neither Lou Barlow nor Ken Barlow. Half Man, Half Biscuit are also new to me, and I am pleased to discover "It's Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas"! Thank you!