"Telly is no place for a singer. A singer's place is on his feet on public floorboards in front of paying punters and not ducking and weaving and smirking on the flickering rectangle. Besides, viewers seldom listen; viewers view - they view your suit, your shirt, your fillings and ear-hair, your pockmarks and your haircut. ('Course it's a wig! They all wear wigs').

"And telly people do not listen at all; they stride around in cheesecloth and earphones and frig everybody about - 'QUIET EVERYBODY! Right Jakey love, start. No, stop, start again. Now everybody, CLAP! CLAP! STOP CLAPPING! QUIET! Now my love three...two...one...'; prats!"

From Jake's sleeve notes to "Jake Thackray and Songs", Dingle's Records DIN 314; recorded at a concert in Milton Keynes in the late 1980s.