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4 unusual facts about The Last of the Famous International Playboys


The Last of the Famous International Playboys

The title and lyrics of "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" could also allude to John Millington Synge's 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World—a work which similarly deals with the popular glorification of violence and crime.

The song was covered in 1994 by the Bent Backed Tulips, otherwise known as alt-pop band Dramarama.

The song mythologizes the notorious pair of vicious London gangsters known as the Kray twins (Ronnie and Reggie Kray), who held a tight rein on the East End of London during the 1960s.

The version was acoustic, sung and played entirely by John Easdale, Dramarama's singer/songwriter.



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