While some may have dismissed them as mere music hall throwbacks, a
barrow-boy novelty act who wrote daft songs like Snooker Loopy, they'd be totally overlooking the duo's deft musical chops - honed by having played alongside everyone from Jerry Lee Lewis to The Beatles.
When we're all well aware he's just a
barrow-boy who got lucky.
In 1987, EastEnders screened one of the first ever gay snogs on primetime TV when
barrow-boy Barry Clark kissed his yuppie boyfriend Colin Russell.
Margaret Braithwaite, from Kings Heath, won the adult's competition with her painting of Billy the
Barrow-boy and Chris Eden, from Kings Heath, claimed second place for his photograph of Colmore School.
While some may have dismissed them as mere music hall throwbacks, a
barrow-boy novelty act who wrote daft songs, they'd be totally overlooking the fact the duo heavily influenced today's rap scene.
MOHAMED Bouazizi was a 26-year-old
barrow-boy trying to sell vegetables in the market square in Sidi Bouzid.
It's as if every English character was portrayed as a Cockney
barrow-boy.
While some old-school stockbrokers are brushed aside, the new culture is depicted as an alliance of upper-class privilege and
barrow-boy opportunism, apparently aided by avoidance of education.
Yet for all his
barrow-boy bluster, Frankie emerged as a charmless wrong 'un.
East End
barrow-boy turned pounds 700million tycoon Alan Sugar will whittle his way through 14 contestants to find an applicant suitable for a pounds 100,000 a year position in his company.
He sounds like a
barrow-boy, but actually started as a tea-boy.
But we can report that the
barrow-boy is all smiles when he turns up most weekends to pursue his lucrative sideline at the busy stall.
barrow-boy - a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow