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ERIC'S IDOLS

A list of people he quotes as part of his influences.

 

Woody Allen

Curtly Ambrose

Antonioni

John Arlott

Joan Armatrading

Arthur Askey

WH Auden

Jane Austen

Danny Aykroyd

Humphrey Barclay

Brigitte Bardot

Julian Barnes

Count Basie

Stanley Baxter

The Beatles

Bellini

John Belushi

Richie Benaud

Alan Bennett

Jack Benny

The Beverley Sisters

Beyond the Fringe

Ivor Biggun

Bilko

Geoffrey Boycott

Peter Broadbent (Inside Left for the Wolves)

Eleanor Bron

Tim Brooke-Taylor

Dave Brubeck

Anthony Buffery

Sid Caesar

Carousel

The late Graham Chapman

Bobby Charlton

Citroen cars

The early John Cleese

All of Carol Cleveland

Jimmy Cliff

John Coltrane

Billy Connolly

Ry Cooder

Steve Coogan

Peter Cook

Tommy Cooper

Billy Cotton

Noel Coward

Cindy Crawford

Billy Crystal

Ivor Cutler

Charles Dickens

Does The Team Think ?

Basil D'Oliveira

Lonnie Donegan

Down Your Way

Charlie Drake

Bob Dylan

Jimmy Edwards

TS Eliot

Duke Ellington

Denholm Elliott

Godfrey Evans

The Everly Brothers

Marty Feldman

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flanagan and Allen

Flanders and Swann

John Fortune

French and Saunders

Friday Night is Music Night

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie

Ava Gardner

Big Bird Joel Garner

Gazza

Most of Terry Gilliam

Gower and Graveney

Greene and Waugh

Tom Graveney

Stephen Jay Greenblatt

Sydney Greenstreet

Griffiths and Hall

Alec Guinness

Norman Gunston

Gene Hackman

Billy Haley and most of his Comets

Roger Hancock

Tony Hancock

Johnny Hancocks (Outside right for the Wolves)

Gilber Harding

Oliver Hardy

Rex Harrison

Arthur Haynes (with Dermot Kelly and Nicholas Parsons)

Johnny Haynes

Hazlitt

Buck Henry

Johnny Hodges

Gerard Hoffnung

The Hollies

Buddy Holly

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Kenneth Horne

Frankie Howerd

Alan Hudson

Barry Humphries

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Neil Innes

Mick Jagger

Brian Johnstone

Nearly all of Terry Jones

Buster Keaton

Garrison Keiller

The Kinks

Roy Kinnear

Alan Knott

Stan Laurel

DH Lawrence

Edward Lear

Timothy Leary

Frank Loesser

Look Back In Anger

Jonathan Lynn

Steve Martin

Chico Marx

Stanley Matthews

Elaine May

PBH May

George Melly

Jonathan Miller

Max Miller

Spike Milligan

Joni Mitchell

Keith Moon

Brian Moore

Morecambe and Wise

Frankie Muir and Denis Norden

Jerry Mulligan

Anthony Newley in The Strange World of Gurney Slade (but only in that)

Randy Newman

The old "New Statesman"

Mike Nichols

Harry Nilsson

Not the Nine O'Clock News

Bill Oddie

Peter Osgood and Charlie Cooke

Syd Owen

Wilfred Owen

The middle period of Michael Palin

Charlie Parker

Pelé

Elvis Presley

Radio Luxembourg

Gilda Radner

Ramadhin and Valentine

Johnnie Ray

Ted Ray

Al Read

Keith Richards

Ralph Richardson

Paddy Roberts

Fyffe Robertson

The Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Variety Show

Salman Rushdie

Willie Rushton

Round the Horne

Father Guido Sarducci

Tom Scott

Peter Sellers

William Shakespeare

Mrs Shufflewick

Paul Simon

The Singing Nun

The Singing Postman

Rodney Slater

Alan Smith (Warwickshire opener and wicket keeper)

MJK Smith

Gary Sobers

Roger Ruskin Spear

The old "Spectator"

Stephen Spender

Spinal Tap

Viv Stanshall

Harry Dean Stanton

Freddie Starr

Statham and Trueman

Pamela Stephenson

Stephen Stills

The Stones

Tom Stoppard

Sunday Night at the London Palladium

Derek Taylor

Sonny Terry and Brownie Mac Ghee

Dylan Thomas

Earl Thompson

Truffaut

Dick Van Dyke

Walcott

Horace Walpole

Everton Weekes

Huw Weldon

Robin Williams

Norman Wisdom and Jerry Desmond

The Wolves (not Virginia or Steven but the whole team from the mid-fifties to the Cup Winning side of 1960)

Ronnie Wood

Worell

Harry Worth

Billy Wright