Guilty My a**E! ; Behind His Funny-Man Facade, Ricky Tomlinson Is an Angry Man with a Turbulent Past and a Burning Desire to Undo the Conviction That Sent Him to Prison 35 Years Ago. By Nigel Jones
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A working-class hero is something to be' sang John Lennon in 1970.
Around the same time, Lennon's fellow Liverpudlian, Ricky Tomlinson, was not just singing the words, he was acting them out. Not in the TV studio that is Tomlinson's habitat now, but on the grim streets of 1970s Britain, a country so different from today as to be unrecognisable - a place where class war and flying pickets prevailed.See the full content of this document
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Guilty My a**E! ; Behind His Funny-Man Facade, Ricky Tomlinson Is an Angry Man with a Turbulent Past and a Burning Desire to Undo the Conviction That Sent Him to Prison 35 Years Ago. By Nigel Jones
In those days, Tomlinson was not the corpulent, couch potato character we know and love from The Royle Family, but a trade union militant on the front lines of one of the many bitter industrial disputes ripping the country's social fabric apart. One thing, however, has not changed. Tomlinson, a former plasterer, was an angry young man then, and, at 67, he ...
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