
The chap with the foppish hair is Cacofonix the Bard from the popular Asterix books. His running gag is that he sings very, very badly (or, indeed, in styles more akin to the 20th/21st century) and gets beaten up, tied up and gagged or otherwise silenced by those around him.
The lyrics are those of James Blunt.
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Mon 4 May 2009, 17:32,
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The lyrics are those of James Blunt.