The eccentric entertainer, poet, playwright and recording artist Ivor Cutler was a master of off-beat humour championed by such diverse fans as Bertrad Russell, disc jockey John Peel, Billy Connolly, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The Beatles cast him as the bus conductor in the 1967 film The Magical Mystery Tour.On stage Cutler was described as having the demeanour and voice of the weariest human being ever to be cursed with existence and looking like one of the more sinister characters in ...[Read Story]