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John Philip "Jake" Thackray (27 February 1938 ? 24 December 2002), was an English poet and singer-songwriter from Pickering, in North Yorkshire. Jake Thackray was born in Pickering, North Yorkshire, He was educated at St. Michael's Roman Catholic college in Leeds and at Durham University, where he graduated in 1960 with a degree in Modern Languages. Thackray then spent four years in France teaching English, with a brief interlude of about six months when he taught in Algeria at the height of the war for independence in 1961?1962.