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((Short description|Irish singer))
((Other people|Joseph Locke))
((more citations needed|date=January 2014))
((Infobox person
| name          = Josef Locke 
| image         = Joseflocke1957.jpg
| caption       = McLaughlin, ((circa|1957))
| birth_name    = Joseph McLaughlin
| birth_date    = ((Birth date|df=y|1917|3|23))
| birth_place   = [[Derry]], Ireland
| death_date    = ((Death date and age|df=y|1999|10|15|1917|3|23))
| death_place   = [[Clane]], County Kildare, Ireland
| other_names   = The Singing Bobby
| occupation    = Singer
| years_active  = 1949–1992
| known_for     = 
| notable_works = 
))

'''Joseph McLaughlin''' (23 March 1917<ref name="LarkinGE">((cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=1503))</ref> – 15 October 1999),<ref name="guardian"/> known professionally as '''Josef Locke''', was an Irish [[tenor]]. He was successful in the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s.

==Background==
Born in [[Derry]], Ireland,<ref name="LarkinGE"/> he was the son of a butcher and cattle dealer, and one of nine children. He started singing in local churches in the [[Bogside]] at the age of seven, and as a teenager added two years to his age to enlist in the [[Irish Guards]],<ref name="LarkinGE"/> later serving abroad with the [[Palestine Police Force]],<ref name="guardian">((cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/oct/16/guardianobituaries|title=Josef Locke|date=16 October 1999|author=Stephen Dixon|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=17 January 2019))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.newsletter.co.uk/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/josef-locke-he-was-multi-coloured-performer-world-full-grey-people-1142290|title=Josef Locke: He was a '˜multi-coloured' performer in a world full of grey people|date=19 March 2017|author=|website=The Newsletter|access-date=25 October 2020))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/16/arts/josef-locke-82-irish-tenor-who-inspired-tears-is-dead.html|title=Josef Locke, 82, Irish Tenor Who Inspired Tears, Is Dead
|date=16 October 1999|author=James F. Clarity|website=The New York Times|access-date=25 October 2020))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.irishnews.com/news/2017/04/29/news/linen-hall-library-to-unlock-the-life-of-colourful-entertainer-josef-locke-1011609/|title=Linen Hall Library to unlock the life of colourful entertainer Josef Locke|date=29 April 2017|author=Suzanne McGonagle|website=The Irish News|access-date=25 October 2020))</ref> before returning in the late 1930s to join the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]].<ref name="LarkinGE"/>

==Career==
Known as ''The Singing Bobby'', he became a local celebrity before starting to work the UK [[Variety show|variety circuit]], where he also played summer seasons in English seaside resorts.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> The renowned Irish tenor [[John McCormack (tenor)|John McCormack]] advised him that his voice was better suited to a lighter repertoire than the operatic one he had in mind, and urged him to find an agent—thus he found the noted impresario [[Jack Hylton]] who booked him, but could not fit his full name on the bill, thus ''Joseph McLaughlin'' became ''Josef Locke''.

He made an immediate impact when featured in "Starry Way," a twenty-week summer show at the Blackpool Opera House in 1946 and was rebooked for the following summer, then starring for three seasons at the Blackpool Hippodrome. He appeared in ten Blackpool seasons from 1946 to 1969, not the nineteen seasons he later claimed.

He made his first radio broadcast in 1949, and subsequently appeared on television programmes such as ''Rooftop Rendezvous'', ''Top of the Town'', ''All-star Bill'' and ''The Frankie Howerd Show''.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He was signed to the Columbia label in 1947, and his first releases were the two Italian songs "Santa Lucia" and "Come Back to Sorrento".

===Success===
In 1947, Locke released "Hear My Song, Violetta," which became forever associated with him.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> It was based on a 1936 tango "Hör' mein Lied, Violetta" by Othmar Klose and Rudolf Lukesch. The song "Hör' mein Lied, Violetta" was often covered, including by [[Peter Alexander (Austrian performer)|Peter Alexander]] and was itself based on [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s ''[[La Traviata]]''.

Locke's other songs were mostly a mixture of ballads associated with Ireland ("[[I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen]]", "[[Dear Old Donegal]]", "[[Galway Bay (song)|Galway Bay]]", "[[The Isle of Innisfree]]", the theme song from the film ''[[The Quiet Man]]'', and another [[Dick Farrelly]] song, "The Rose of Slievenamon") excerpts from operettas (including "The Drinking Song" from ''[[The Student Prince]]'', "My Heart and I" from [[Richard Tauber]]'s operetta ''Old Chelsea'', and "Goodbye" from ''[[The White Horse Inn]]'') and familiar favourites such as "I'll Walk Beside You," "[[Torna a Surriento|Come Back to Sorrento]]," and "[[Cara Mia]]."<ref name="LarkinGE"/>

In 1948, he appeared in several films produced by [[Mancunian Films]], usually as versions of himself. He plays himself in the film ''[[Holidays with Pay]]''.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He also appears as "Sergeant Locke" in the 1949 comedy ''What a Carry On!''.

In 1958, after he had appeared in five [[Royal Variety Performance]]s, and while he was still at the peak of his career, the British tax authorities began to make substantial demands that Locke declined to meet.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Eventually he fled the country for Ireland, where he lay low for several years.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> When his differences with the taxman were eventually settled, Locke relaunched his career in England with tours of the northern variety clubs and summer seasons at Blackpool's Queen's Theatre in 1968 and 1969, before retiring to [[County Kildare]], emerging for the occasional concert in England.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He later appeared on British and Irish television, and in November 1984 was given a lengthy 90-minute tribute in honour of the award he was to be receiving at the Olympia theatre commemorating his career in show business on [[Gay Byrne]]'s ''[[The Late Late Show (Ireland)|The Late Late Show]]''.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Locke also made many appearances on the BBC TV's long running variety show ''[[The Good Old Days (British TV series)|The Good Old Days]]''.

===''Hear My Song''===
[[File:Josef Locke memorial, Derry, September 2010 (02).JPG|thumb|Josef Locke memorial in Derry]]
In 1991, the Peter Chelsom film ''[[Hear My Song]]'' was released.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> It is a fantasy based on the notion of Locke returning from his Irish exile in the 1960s to complete an old love affair, and save a Liverpool-based Irish night-club from ruination.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Locke is played by [[Ned Beatty]], with the singing voice of [[Vernon Midgley]].<ref name="LarkinGE"/>

The film led to a revival in Locke's career. A compilation CD was released and he appeared on ''[[This Is Your Life (UK TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in March 1992.<ref>((cite web|url=http://geocities.com/Hollywood/5144/life9192.html |title=This Is Your Life Series 23: 1991–92 |access-date=15 November 2012 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803080709/http://geocities.com/Hollywood/5144/life9192.html |archive-date= 3 August 2009 ))</ref> He performed in front of the Prince and Princess of Wales at the 1992 [[Royal Variety Show]], singing "Goodbye", the final song performed by his character in the film. He had announced prior to the song that this would be his final public appearance.

==Memorial==
Josef Locke died on 15 October 1999 aged 82, and was survived by his wife, Carmel, and a son.<ref name="guardian"/>

On 22 March 2005, a bronze memorial to Locke was unveiled outside the City Hotel on Queen's Quay in Derry by [[Phil Coulter]] and [[John Hume]]. The memorial was designed by Terry Quigley. It takes the form of a spiraling scroll divided by lines, representing a musical stave. The spiral suggests the flowing melody of a song, and is punctuated by images illustrating episodes in his life, including Locke in police uniform, [[Blackpool Tower]], [[Carnegie Hall]], and the musical notes of the opening lines of "Hear My Song".

A biography of the singer, entitled ''Josef Locke: The People's Tenor'', by Nuala McAllister Hart was published in March 2017, the centenary of his birth.<ref>Nuala McAllister Hart, 'Josef Locke: The People's Tenor' (March 2017) ((ISBN|978-1906689742)). 160 pp, illustrated.</ref> The book corrects many myths that the charismatic Locke circulated about his career.

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* ((IMDb name|0516760))
* [http://www.joseflocke.co.uk The Josef Locke appreciation society]
* Nuala McAllister Hart, 'Josef Locke: The People's Tenor' (March 2017) ((ISBN|978-1906689742)). 160 pp, illustrated.
* http://www.derryjournal.com/news/mcallister-hart-hailed-for-josef-locke-book-1-8204482 ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425165128/https://www.derryjournal.com/news/mcallister-hart-hailed-for-josef-locke-book-1-8204482 |date=25 April 2019 ))

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