James bolam on rodney bewes cause
James bolam on rodney bewes cause
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The forty-year feud: As Likely Lads star Rodney Bewes dies at 79, how a rift with his more famous co-star lasted decades, cost him a fortune and is the reason repeats of legendary sitcom didn't appear for years
Of all the memorable TV sitcom theme songs over the years, it was the most melancholy, its words the most haunting: ‘Oh, what happened to you, whatever happened to me?
What became of the people we used to be?’
Rodney Bewes, one half of the hit BBC show Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, who died yesterday aged 79, asked himself those questions every day of his life for 40 years.
His acclaimed double act with co-star James Bolam had ended in an acrimonious telephone call in , after an ill-judged joke sparked an almighty row between them.
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Rodney Bewes (second right), one half of the hit BBC show Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, died yesterday aged He is pictured with co-star James Bolam (second left), Janet Kelly (right) and Kate Story (le