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Kershaw, known for hits such as Wide Boy and Don Quixote, has released a six-track EP called These Little Things.

Others think of him as a kind of Essex wide boy, a chancer, ready to pull the wool over your eyes.

He definitely didn’t just play New York standards; he’d play Human League or Wide Boy Awake, he liked weird, dubby Sly & Robbie sounds.

But he was also fascinated by cartoonist Eddie Campbell’s character Dapper John, an archetypal English “wide boy”—a man who takes unreasonable chances and gets by through resourcefulness and smooth talk.

Only Fools and Horses, which featured Lyndhurst as the hapless Rodney and David Jason as his wide boy brother, had a slow start and it was only when it got to its third series that it became a ratings hit.