Alexis Petridis on ... Gilbert O'Sullivan

'I heard Doo-Wakka-Day and loved its awfulness'As a rock critic, it's hard to make much of a case for the oeuvre of 1970s singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. It's variously saccharine, unctuous and smugly jaunty – a state of affairs compounded by O'Sullivan's gimmick of dressing as a kind of overgrown Victorian schoolboy. Like a lot of people, my parents loved him, but these days his work remains unreclaimed, even in an age that celebrates guilty pleasures.All of this ran through my head as ...

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