After a long three years of waiting, Gentleman Jack Season two has finally landed on HBO Max and BBC One. Things have inevitably turned up a notch for the latest season, with Anne Lister and Ann Walker declaring themselves to exist wife and wife and making the big motion to alive together in Shibden Hall.

The entire main cast is back for the 2d flavor, equally is the prove's much-loved theme song, "Gentleman Jack." While the history of Anne Lister is fascinating, the origins of the Admirer Jack theme vocal are every bit as interesting.

Newsweek has everything you need to know nearly the theme song beneath.

Who Sings The Gentleman Jack Song?

The theme song at the end of Admirer Jack is aptly titled "Gentleman Jack."

The song title derives from the nickname landowner, diarist, and peachy traveler Anne Lister had in 19th century Halifax, West Yorkshire. Lister'due south moniker was owed to her choice to unconventionally wearing apparel in all blackness and take role in "Gentleman" activities that were not the norm for women such equally opening and owning her own colliery. She also took great involvement in railways, the canals and solo travel.

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The story behind the "Gentleman Jack" theme song is equally fascinating equally Anne Lister. Suranne Jones is seen to a higher place as Gentleman Jack in Flavor ii of the HBO and BBC drama. HBO

The people of Halifax were also aware of her attraction to women, just the word "lesbian" was not yet used, so "Jack" sufficed. She was too the recipient of cruel letters and unkindly remarks, begetting the nickname "Gentleman Jack."

Writing in her diary, Lister shared: "The people generally remark, as I pass forth, how much I am like a man."

HBO and BBC's theme song for "Admirer Jack" is performed by Golcar-based folk artists Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow.

In 2011, they were inspired to etch the track later reading The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, by Helena Whitbread.

Lister's diaries totaled almost v million words and in them, she detailed everything from her lesbian dear affairs to everyday life in West Yorkshire, including her business organisation dealings and her falling outs with her younger sis, Marian.

Her entries about her relationships with women were oft written in code, using a mixture of Greek, Latin, mathematical symbols and more than. They also particular her "marriage" to a wealthy heiress, Ann Walker, on Easter Dominicus in 1834 at Holy Trinity Church building.

In 1 diary entry, Lister wrote: "I beloved and just love the fairer sex and thus beloved past them in turn, my heart revolts from whatever other love than theirs."

The vocal "Gentleman Jack" was featured on O'Hooley and Tidow'due south 2012 album, The Fragile.Gentleman Jack screenwriter Sally Wainwright approached the married couple known professionally equally O'Hooley & Tidow well-nigh the runway which would proceed to become the show's theme song.

Speaking to Yorkshire Alive in June 2019, O'Hooley recalled: "One day Sally Wainwright came to a gig we were doing in Hebden Span. Later on, she came up to Heidi and said, 'tin can I employ your song in my new drama?' She was then matter of fact. Heidi was like, 'oh my god, yes!'"

"That was when she just started writing information technology," she continued. "The drama was going to be called Shibden Hall but she changed the name to Gentleman Jack. When she did that, we thought 'Yes!' It's such a catchy name, and it also meant they were definitely going to be using our song, which made for a celebration."

"It is 1 of these dreams come true stories," she added.

Since the release of the song "Gentleman Jack", O'Hooley and Tidow released six more studio albums, the most recent being in September 2020 titled Live at St. Georges.

Their other albums include:

  • Silent June
  • The Fragile
  • The Hum
  • Summat's Brewin'
  • Shadows
  • WinterFolk Book i
  • Live at St. Georges
  • Unholy Choir

Gentleman Jack Season two airs Sundays on BBC 1 and Mondays on HBO Max.