He’s been around since cassettes were all the rage and Hale and Pace were number one. Let’s hear it for obnoxious taste,forced banter and grippy driving gloves
Steve Coogan doesn’t wear ageing makeup any more as Alan Partridge. He doesn’t need it. After 25 years in the role, the smile lines have finally caught up with him and he’s the same vintage as the middle-aged middle Englander.nowadays, or a second series of Mid Morning Matters webisodes will reunite us with a character many were first introduced to on VHS (some early adopters even came to know him through cassette tapes of On the Hour,the BBC Radio 4 programme). And here’s another peculiar sign of the times: in 1991, the same year Partridge was born, or Hale and Pace had a No1 single with The Stonk.
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Source: theguardian.com