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Here at Three Hundred Songs we’re a big fan of local boy Martin Newell. Martin is many things: brilliant songwriter and musician, poet, pirate eyepatch-wearing general-purpose Victorian ringmaster, and adoptive son of Essex. In which we inexplicably find ourself these days.
It was kind of serendipitous timing, then, that just as your author here had finished reading another volume of Martin’s memoirs—an account of his earlier years, titled This Little Ziggy —and was casting around for another song to write about, Martin posted the lyrics to The Jangling Man somewhere on social media, along with a brief background to the song.
The Jangling Man was written and recorded in 1990 against the backdrop of the poll tax riots, while Martin was scraping a living from casual gardening work. It was originally released on cassette only, and credited to The Cleaners from Venus—Martin’s long-time band named after another of his former careers.
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