Who is the central character of the 1967 single "Excerpt from a Teenage Opera"?

jeanie, It is ! One of the lines (of which I recall only a part) “…….flowers decorate a marble grave”.

jeanie, I remember the song and I also thought he was dead. I had an Uncle Jack who never came back, from WW2.

Remember this when I was a child, always thought it was about him being dead.

ps Dream Academy sang " Life in a Northern Town ".

ZyggyStardust, good song, similar to Life in a Northern Town.