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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