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- ↑ "It's our working jubilee too!", BBC News, 2002. Retrieved 22 December 2020
- 1 2 3 Roy Hudd and Philip Hindin, Roy Hudd's Cavalcade of Variety Acts, Robson Books, 1998, ISBN 1-86105-206-5, p.123
- ↑ "David is the music man", Bournemouth Echo, 23 August 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2020