Contrary to some of the glowing tributes in the media (some, one suspects, written by people who were not born when Yarwood was in his prime), he was not that great an impressionist. He was not a patch on the young Peter Sellers, or a man who seemed to be Sellers' natural successor, Peter Goodwright. His material was unsophisticated, but he endeared himself to the rising generation who put Mrs Thatcher into power by lampooning their hate figures, Harold Wilson, Denis Healey and Edward Heath.
To be fair, one has to acclaim a Cheshire lad who made it to the top of his profession.
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