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On this day, 20 May 1957, English comedian and actor Max Wall, whose performing career covered music hall, theatre, films and television, played the first of six dates at Cardiff’s New Theatre.
He is best remembered for his ludicrously attired and hilariously strutting Professor Wallofski. John Cleese has acknowledged Wall's influence on his own "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch for Monty Python's Flying Circus.
On 1 April 1977, Wall's version of Ian Dury's song "England's Glory" produced by Cardiff rocker Dave Edmunds (which featured in Dury's stage show Apples) was issued on Stiff Records, backed with "Dream Tobacco" and given away with the album Hits Greatest Stiffs.Wall also appeared onstage with Dury at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1978, but was poorly received, and said "They only want the walk".
