Having left Aylesbury Grammar School at 17, he had various jobs including labourer, mortuary technician, artist's model, theatrical agency assistant, actor with the Red Ladder Theatre Company in Leeds and appeared as a mummy in the film The Mummy.
In later years the song's title would serve as the title for a Jake Arnott novel published in 2006 whose plot line is reminiscent of the themes discussed in the song.
Less Than Jake | Jake Gyllenhaal | Jake Garn | Jake | Jake Roberts | Jake Nava | Jake LaMotta | Jake and Dinos Chapman | Jake Drake-Brockman | The Judge and Jake Wyler | Jake Kaufman | Jake Ballard | Jake Wood | Jake Shears | Jake Richardson | Jake Pavelka | Jake Heggie | Jake Gibbs | Jake 2.0 | Jake Winebaum | Jake Owen | J.J. "Jake" Pickle | Jake Weber | Jake Thomas | Jake T. Forbes | Jake Seamer | Jake Rademacher | Jake Plummer | Jake O'Donnell | Jake McGoldrick |