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. After the group broke up, he worked as a comedian as a member of The Comic Strip. From the early 1980s he made many appearances at

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and on the London

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circuit. He appeared in the second episode of the comedy series, '' The Young Ones'', hanging upside-down from the ceiling as

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still in his parachute. Golden now fronts an R&B and soul group, Ronnie and the Rex. He also writes songs and sketches for BBC Radio 4's ''The Right Time''. A long-time musical collaborator with Barry Cryer, Golden and Cryer performed at the ''Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People'' show at The

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and

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in December 2009. Cryer and Golden's performance was broadcast on

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on 23 January 2010.

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