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Robert "Doc" Cox (born 1 July 1946), also known asIvor Biggun, is a British musician and former television journalist. He is known for his appearances on theBBC TV programmeThat's Life! from 1982 to 1992 and for four albums of humorous, smutty songs. Currently resident inSuffolk, he is active in several pub bands, including the Trembling Wheelbarrows.
Cox was educated at theKing Edward VI Grammar School inRetford,Nottinghamshire.[citation needed]
After some years as a teacher, Cox became a sound engineer with theBBC in 1969. Later he became a warm-up man forThat's Life!; he recalled that one day "Someone didn't turn up for one of the auditions or something, and I was sort of pushed in".[1] In October 2008, Cox was part of aThat’s Life! reunion broadcast onBBC London 94.9. Cox said of the impending reunion: "It'll be lovely to chat to Esther again. Somebody once asked me who my greatest influences were, and I had to reply 'Buddy Holly,George Formby, my dad,Martin Luther King andEsther Rantzen'."[2]
Under the Biggun name, Cox fronts a humorous band that is sometimes billed simply as "Ivor Biggun", or variously "Ivor Biggun and the Red-nosed Burglars" or "Ivor Biggun and the Left-handed Wankers", also "Ivor’s Jivers" (less rude), or Ivor Biggun's Vulgar Band. He specialises indouble entendre-laden smutty songs. Ivor Biggun has released four albums of bawdy songs (and recorded withJudge Dread andDavid "Screaming Lord" Sutch), the most recent being 2005'sHandling Swollen Goods.
Johnny Rotten selected "The Winker's Song (Misprint)" as his single of the week in 1978 when he was a guest reviewer forNew Musical Express. The single sold well, reaching number 22 in theUK Singles Chart thanks to Rotten's support. However, it was banned by nearly all radio stations due to its explicit lyrics. The single "Bras on 45 (Family Version)", credited to "Ivor Biggun and the D Cups", reached number 50 in the UK Singles Chart in 1981 and remained in the charts for three weeks.[3]
