This event has finished Took place on: Thursday, 25th Apr 2024
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FreeA talk on the music hall comedic singer.
Music hall comedic singer, Fred Barnes (1885-1938), was an LGBTQ+ icon and the most interesting person you have never heard of. The press called him the male Vesta Tilley, the courts deemed him “a menace to His Majesty's fighting forces” but his hit song ‘The Black Sheep of the Family’ describes him best.
Hear about a life containing stardom, fabulous fashion, sailors, addiction, suicide and a pet monkey. A talk with oral histories, images and exerts from letters and press interviews.
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2024-04-25 2024-04-25 Europe/London The Life and Works of Fred Barnes A talk on the music hall comedic singer. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2024/04/25/the-life-and-works-of-fred-barnes-382431 London Metropolitan Archives,40 Northampton Rd,,LondonLocation
London Metropolitan Archives,
40 Northampton Rd,
London,
EC1R 0HB
London,
EC1R 0HB
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