Obituary: Duke D'Mond

Singer whose group's top 10 hits brought parody to 1960s popThe Barron Knights were the only mid-1960s British pop group to score in the top 20 with comedy, in four medleys that parodied chart favourites. Their lead vocalist was Duke D'Mond, who has died of a heart attack aged 66. His chief artistic strengths were instinctive audience control, a sensitive way with ballads, and as "straight man" in the sketches and routines that developed when an increasing element of humour impinged upon what ha...

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