Comedian Jasper Carrott pays tribute to loyal friend who helped launch his career. Les Ward put up £50 in 1969 to help friend and fellow salesman Jasper Carrott launch Solihull’s Boggery Folk Club - the rest is showbiz history! Some 40 years later, Jasper was in Los Angeles with wife Hazel when the shock news arrived by email. Les, 75, had died after collapsing at East Midlands Airport just before he was due to catch a flight to Corfu. The friends last saw each other on a much happier occasion on 31st August, when the 68-year-old comedian had invited Les to be a guest in his box at Birmingham City for the 1-1 draw with Ipswich Town. Jasper paid tribute to his close friend and recalled how they went into business together. “We first met at the old Aero Club next to the airport when I was 21 and we became very good friends. He was selling Fablon, a type of sticky back plastic, and I was selling toothpaste. After I came back from working as a ‘dufflecoat’ at Butlins in ‘68, I had nowhere to live other than going home so I went to live at his place in Olton. We started the Boggery Folk Club in February, 1969, at the Old Moseleians club on Lugtrout Lane. It was so successful it changed my life.” Read full story below:
Posted on: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:40:17 +0000
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