Jeff Nuttall; Tv Actor, Writer, Poet and Teacher
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When Jeff Nuttall collapsed leaving the pub where his trad jazz band had played a lunchtime residency for a decade, it was a gloriously fitting end for a man whose entire life had been a Happening. Whether it was as co-founder of influential British performance art troupe The People Show, or as the author of Bomb Culture, one of the seminal texts of its era, Nuttall was at the forefront of a very English take on counter-cultural activity.
Rather than mind-expanding psychedelic trips, his activities revolved around northern art schools and life seen through the bottom of a glass. Latterly as a poet and bit-part TV actor, including a perfectly cast Friar Tuck in Robin Hood, and in films such as The World Is Not Enough and Scandal, he married free creative expression with the basic need to earn a crust.See the full content of this document
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Jeff Nuttall; Tv Actor, Writer, Poet and Teacher
Pick up any book about the 1960s, and Nuttall is invariably in the thick of all the liberating chaos that ran amok in the arts labs of the day. He was there at every significant protest and event, from the 1950s CND marches to the f...
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