Focus on this artwork and analyze the In media.
The comedian and entertainer Victoria Wood wrote a song about the statue, in 1973, as part of her studies at the University of Birmingham. Part of it was broadcast in a 2020 BBC programme about her career.The music journalist Peter Paphides wrote in his 2020 autobiographical work Broken Greek that his childhood phobias included:
worms, biting into mushrooms, insects, the fibreglass King Kong which stood next to a ring road in Birmingham city centre...
Images of the statue feature extensively in the 2020 documentary film King Rocker.
King Rocker Birmingham Peter Paphides fibreglass Victoria Wood University of Birmingham King Kong