Just as Brian Wilson’s inability to handle a surfboard gave added intesity to his paeans to the sun-kissed lifestyle of white Californian teenagers, so the cruel fate that prevented the comedian Stewart Lee from seeing The Nightingales first time around (in the ’80s) has borne tender fruit in this ferociously entertaining appreciation of Robert Lloyd, Britain’s most sardonic lyricist. Part Socratic dialogue, part Black Country reboot of Last Of The Summer Wine with powerhouse Nightingales percussionist Fliss Kitson woefully miscast as Nora Batty.
King Rocker takes Lloyd & Lee ino the kind of deeply personal territory that neither seemed to be expecting to visit. From the White Riot tour’s fast track to disillusionment to briefly replacing Nigel Slater as GQ’s food writer, Lloyd’s showbiz odyssey has been a singular one, and it could not have wished for a more idiosynratic and affecting cinematic monument
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