CRAIG BROWN: Comedy turn gets the bullet from Al Capone
The X Factor is coming to an end. Its time to look back on 100 years of this talent show, and to celebrate its landmark moments. 1921: The very first X Factor opens at the Hammersmith Palais de Danse. Under its original title The Xylophone Factor, it features 50 different xylophonists performing popular numbers of the day. The winner is the morbidly obese Mandy Lifeboat, with her rendition of Im Forever Blowing Bubbles. 1926: Novelist Virginia Woolf joins top comic Charlie Chaplin and leading...
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