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Here 'Doddy' David gets to work with a tickling stick (and what
looks to me like a mouthful of orange peel!)
The resemblance to Groucho Marx is so close it's frightening! For
some reason, David just happened to have a false nose and moustache
readily to hand!
A plant pot, a handkerchief and a dodgy red jacket is all it took
to transform David into Tommy Cooper!
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Will the real David van Day please stand up...? The
picture above shows David as we are used to seeing him. As for the
other pictures... well, they all came about after I was commissioned
by Jackie magazine to do a series of features on pop stars
and their hobbies. I turned up at David's house with no real idea
of what his hobby might be. And I quickly got the impression that
David didn't have much of an idea either....
However, he's obviously a quick thinker. In a flash
he decided that his hobby was impersonating people. "OK,"
I said, "Sounds fine by me. So, who do you impersonate?"
A quick dash around the house soon turned up a fluffy
dusting brush. "Well, that's a Ken Dodd tickling stick, isn't
it!"
"Yup, David! Sounds fine to me!"
And a plant pot. "Well, that's a fez like Tommy
Cooper, isn't it!"
"Great, David! Sounds fine to me!"
Anyway, we'd soon gathered together enough bits and
bobs to do Ken Dodd, Groucho Marx, Tommy Cooper and Benny Hill.
All in all, a pretty daft idea for some pretty daft photos. Then
again, that's what pop stardom is all about, isn't it...?
A shovel, a silly hat and
hey presto! It's Benny Hill!
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Dollar
was a very popular duo back in the early '80s. The fluffy peroxide
blonde electro-pop twosome of David van Day and Thereza Bazar had
hit after hit including Mirror Mirror, Give Me Back My Heart and
Videotheque. In recent years David has toured with his version
of Bucks Fizz and he and Thereza took Dollar on the road in a quest
to be 'Reborn in the USA'. The photographs on this page date from
1983.
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