Who remembers Hovis Presley?

[Salty seadog]

Gone to young.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Why is this the first time I have heard of this guy? He is (was) brilliant!
The style reminds me a lot of John Cooper Clark.

 

[FishFright]

I'd forgotten all about him

 

[snorri]

Why is this the first time I have heard of this guy? He is (was) brilliant!

I had to Google him , and read that he had shunned publicity, interesting for a public entertainer.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Is he the lead singer of The Everly Pregnant Brothers?

 

[Salty seadog]

Is he the lead singer of The Everly Pregnant Brothers?

Not unless he came back from the dead

 

[Salty seadog]

Why is this the first time I have heard of this guy? He is (was) brilliant!
The style reminds me a lot of John Cooper Clark.

Less acerbic than John Cooper Clark. A gentler delivery.

I had to Google him , and read that he had shunned publicity, interesting for a public entertainer.

Hence you had to Google him.

 

[Salty seadog]

I'd forgotten all about him

Me too, something in another thread triggered a memory of him.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Gone to young.

That is bloody hilarious LMFAO

 

[Cycleops]

I wonder why Hovis?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I wonder why Hovis?

He lived at the top of a very steep cobbled hill