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He has also created many supporting characters, including John's wife ''Mary Shuttleworth'', and next-door neighbour and incompetent manager ''Ken Worthington''. Their various adventures have featured on a number of radio shows, including ''The Shuttleworths'', ''Shuttleworth's Showtime'' and ''Radio Shuttleworth'', with Fellows doing all the voices and performing on his organ. He has also appeared in a Television special, ''Europigeon'', following the success or otherwise of "Pigeons In Flight". In 2004 , Fellows (as Shuttleworth) made a film with photographer Martin Parr ; titled '' It's Nice Up North '', Shuttleworth tests his theory that British people are nicer the further north one ventures by visiting the Shetland Islands , the most northerly part of the United Kingdom . Shuttleworth is a very affecting character. Essentially decent and benevolent, but with a fatal lack of self-awareness, the unfortunate gap between his actual musical talent and his steadfast belief in the possibility of his eventual pop-stardom is the main source of the character's tragi-comedy. The apparently disturbed Ken Worthington is more of a hindrance than a help to John's life. Fellows is also notable for a hit single in 1978 under the pseudonym Jilted John with the song ''Jilted John''. The single was done in the aggressive, minimalist style of the then-prevailing Punk / New Wave style, but with poppier influences, somewhat akin to The Buzzcocks . The novelty hit was most memorable for its biting lyrics, a first-person narrative of a bitter teenager named John whose girlfriend Julie had left him for another guy named Gordon, "''just 'cause he's better lookin' than me/just 'cause he's cool and trendy.''" The cries of ''"Gordon is a moron"'' and coda of ''"Yeah yeah, it's not fair!"'' repeated '' Ad Infinitum '' in bratty delivery make it one of the most memorable singles of British punk/new wave. Produced by Martin Hannett , the song reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart . It was memorably introduced on Top Of The Pops as "one of the most bizarre singles of the decade". A concept album followed, entitled TRUE LOVE STORIES, charting John's love-life. Unlike the single it was not a hit. Two more recent creations of Fellows include Brian Appleton , a media studies lecturer and rock musicologist from Newcastle-under-Lyme , who is convinced that many major British music stars have plagiarised his music; and Dave Tordoff , a builder, specialising in 'laser screed' Concrete flooring, from Goole , who attempts to be an After Dinner Speaker but only talks about his accumulated wealth. SELECTED TV & RADIO
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