Summary
The booking of Max Boyce for the first show at the Wales Millennium Centre after its glittering opening confirmed the comedian's enduring place in modern popular culture here in Wales. He talks to Mario Basini about his close relationship with the Welsh people
THE folk-singing career of the Welsh miner with a winning grin and a head full of tight black curls hit the buffers when he founds himself aping the songs of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.See the full content of this document
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Mad About Boyce
His attempts at protest songs about the Vietnam War or ballads about American train crashes like the Warbash Cannonball were as convincing as AA Gill singing 'We'll Keep a welcome in the Hillside'.
'You cannot sing with honesty and conviction about things you have no experience of,' Max Boyce recalls now.Then the coal industry collapsed beneath him. He found himself jobless twice when collieries he worked in closed. The young songwriter had found his subjec...See the full content of this document
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