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The Haçienda was the product of Manchester - its people, its mood and its time. From an initial idea by Rob Gretton (manager of Joy Division), and the TV broadcaster and music entrepreneur Anthony Wilson, the nightclub was set up as a then "alternative" platform and venue for new bands, many of...
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Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow was born on the 20th January 1971 in Frodsham in Cheshire and attended Weaver Vale Junior School and then Frodsham High School. From a very early age he worked every Saturday night as a musician in Connah's Quay Labour Club. At the age of fifteen he entered the BBC's...
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Karl Denver (1931-1998)
Karl Denver is probably best remembered as the yodelling pop singer of the 1961 recording of the Zulu folk song "Wimoweh". Born Angus McKenzie in 1931 in Glasgow he was a familiar figure on radio and the concert stage in the 1960s.
Denver left school at 15 to...
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Elkie Brooks
Elkie Brooks, who was born Elaine Bookbinder, on 26 February 1946, a bakery owner's daughter from Cavendish Road, Salford, was almost certain to follow many of her family members into show business - Tony Mansfield, her brother, was leader of the then well-known group, "The...
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