In Song
Ian Dury referenced Harold Hill in This Is What We Find:
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The song set all three of its verses in real places; the others were Turnham Green and Lambeth Walk. In his 2CD Retrospective Reasons To be Cheerful produced by Repertoire Records Dury stated that he never wrote another verse as good as Harold Hill's verse.
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