Touting Taylors

Is there no limit to this man's talents? asks a reader who spotted a Stage advert for Laurie Taylor: The Ideal Cabaret for your function: Sings Your Favourite Sinatra and Manilow Songs ? Probably not, but this is a different Laurie Taylor, though well-known to Our Man in Poppleton. And there are at least three other doppelgangers knocking around -- a sound engineer, an airline pilot and an extremely large and formidable American footballer who happily minimises confusion, and averts the possibility of his vast pay cheque being delivered to Birkbeck College, by calling himself Lawrence.