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Gus Elen (– ) was a
British music hall singer. He achieved success from 1891, performing
cockney songs and sketches as a 'coster' comedian
Background
Gus Elen began his career busking, and found a position singing in a
minstrel troupe. His solo success began with the coster songs, sung in 1891 at the
Middlesex Music Hall, when his comedy partner, a man named Daniels, died in a boating accident. They had performed a 'blackface' comedy act, but solo he performed
cockney songs and sketches as a 'coster' comedian, dressed in the clothes of a poor
East End costermonger, coming himself from a similar background:
The appeal to his audience, many of whom would be poor, was both to laugh at the difficulties of working class life, and to celebrate one's capacity for survival. Elen's performance could so easily have been a caricature, but he performed the songs and patter in a realistic manner. One that endeared him to his audiences, nostalgic for a way of life that was disappearing
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