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Mick Hucknall - Simply Red
A British group formed in 1982, originating in Manchester, with an original line-up of Mick "Red" Hucknall on vocals, Chris Joyce on drums, Tom Bowers on bass, Tim Kellet on keyboard and trumpet, Fritz McIntyre on keyboards and vocals, and with Sylvan Richardson on...
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Phil Lynott Thin Lizzy - (1949-1986)
Philip Lynott, guitarist and singer of the famed pop group "Thin Lizzy", though actually born in Birmingham, England on 20th August 1949, of an Irish mother and a black Brazilian father, moved with his mother to live in Manchester while he was still...
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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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David Gray
David Gray was born in Sale, Manchester in 1968, where his family ran a chain of bakery shops. As a result of a serious family dispute in 1995, he and his parents moved to live in Wales.
Later, he returned to the Northwest region to attend Liverpool University, where his interest in...
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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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