Peter Wyngarde

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ragingwhoremoansWed 13/06/07 18:00

I'm having something of a private Peter Wyngarde revival at the moment. A few weeks ago I watched The Innocents and Night of the Eagle, and then I bought his album on CD. I don't know if any of you have ever encountered Mr Wyngarde's one and only venture into the world of popular music, but it's certainly one of the most, um, unique records ever made. Unable to sing, Wyngarde instead speaks (like a British William Shatner only much, much stranger) his way (with and without musical accompaniment) through, amongst other things) W H Auden's 'Unknown Citizen' (recited 'in character' as an old man), a cover of Mod band The Attack's 'Neville Thumbcatch' and a truly bizarre story about a violent skinhead about to queerbash a gay hippy who turns out to be a female skinhead in disguise.

But the most notorious track on the album, which allegedly saw it pulled from the shelves (Wyngarde himself denies this, claiming that it simply sold out, and manufacturing problems meant there was never a second pressing) is 'Rape'. Yes, that's right - TV's Jason King takes us on a jolly tour of different kinds of rape around the world, complete with comedy accent for each country. It's possibly one of the most breathtakingly offensive things ever recorded. The album is, in its own very special way, a masterpiece.

Wyngarde's complete disappearance from our screens is a tragedy. Flash Gordon and an episode of Doctor Who are the only really notable things he's done since his famous 'indiscretion' in the 70s. It seems amazing that nobody's attempted to resurrect the career of such a major cult figure (if Wyngarde was American, Quentin Tarantino would have brought him to a whole new audience by now). On IMDB it's revealed that a female fan mounted a 'bring back Peter' campaign a few years back, which came to nothing. But maybe it's better that way. The story of a cult TV star who was exiled from television after being caught cottaging is a lot more romantic and interesting than seeing an old ham prop up the bar on Emmerdale, I suppose.

jacksparrowWed 13/06/07 18:21

He should have been a huge star.

After Jason King he was poised to break through to some high profile TV work but his arrest and prosecution for cottaging instantly put an end to any such career.

I remember reading a piece about him, I'm not sure where, and it said at the time the vice squad were deliberately targetting known homosexualists working in the entertainment industry.

It saddens me that then his career was brought to end when today he'd have been sat on a couch with Graham Norton tittering about it.

Poor Peter...

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