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Paul Lewis Classical
pianist Paul Lewis, who featured as a soloist at
the 2005 Last Night of the Proms, was a student
at Prescot Grammar School. His first
international achievement was the second prize at
the 1994 World Piano Competition in London.In
2000 he became a Professor of Piano at the Royal
Academy of Music. Lewis played in many
prestigious venues and various festivals all over
the world and with many notable orchestra with
famous conductors. More
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Michael Cox His
sisters wrote to Jack Good, a TV producer of
shows such as Oh Boy and Boy Meets Girl, to say
their brother could match the stars of the day at
singing, his voice being similar to that of Ricky
Nelson. He was signed up for TV shows and a
record contract. His recording career was brief
but included 'Angela Jones' which entered the
charts in June 1960 reaching No 7. Along
'Came Caroline' entered the charts in October
1960 reaching No 41. He was more
successful in countries such as Sweden and may
now live in Australia. His achievements were
actually mentioned by Spencer Briggs, headmaster
at the time, high praise indeed! |
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Tony Hazzard,
songwriter, session singer and recording artiste.
As a songwriter, wrote the following
international hits:You Won't Be Leaving -
Herman's Hermits : Ha-Ha Said The Clown - Manfred
Mann : Fox On The Run - Manfred Mann : Listen To
Me - The Hollies :Hello World - The Tremeloes :
Me, The Peaceful Heart - Lulu : Maria Elena -
Gene Pitney : Getting Over You - Andy Williams.
As a session singer, sang on James Last albums
and Elton John albums (Elton John, Tumbleweed
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Stuart Sutcliffe,
aka The fifth Beatle, attended PGS and the
Liverpool College of Art. It was here that he met
John Lennon. Stuart's art was abstract and
influenced by Van Gogh. He was approached by John
Lennon to join the early Beatles as bass
guitarist. It was obvious that Stuart would never
be as good a musician as he was an artist. though
Stuart playedwith The Beatles in Hamburg where he
met and fell in love with Astrid Kirchherr. The
other Beatles left Hamburg in December 1960 while
Stuart decided to stay. He lived in the attic
flat of Astrid's home in the Hamburg. Sadly,
Stuart died at the age of 21 in Hamburg. More
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Colin Vearncombe is
the singer songwriter formerly known as the
artist Black and is best remembered for the 80's
hits 'Wonderful Life' and 'Sweetest Smile'. His
first album release under his own name, 'The
Accused', was released in October 1999. Since
then he has released 3 other albums. They are
'Abbey Road Live', 'Water On Snow' & 'Live At
The Bassline Johannesburg'. He has a new album
'smoke up close' set for release in 2003. More
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John Cushing After
five years as Principal Clarinet with the
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, John was
appointed Principal Clarinet with the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra in 1978. Since then
he has appeared as soloist with the Orchestra on
many occasions, and has an extensive Concerto
repertoire, including James Macmillan’s
Ninian, which was written for and dedicated to
him which is now released on the BIS label to
great critical acclaim. More
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Dave McCabe is the
leader of popular Merseyside band, The Zutons.
After a successful second album, the band were
nominated for the prestigious Mercury Music Award
for 2006. More
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Peter Griffiths was
the bass player for Punk Liverpool based band
'The Spitfire Boys' in the late seventies. The
Spitfire Boys were without doubt Liverpool's
finest punk band and produced its finest slice of
punk vinyl - British Refugee/Mein Kampf in
1977. More
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Laurence Perkins is
Principal Bassoonist in Manchester Camerata. He
describes his life as, "A complex and
occasionally chaotic mix of orchestral playing
(with Camerata and other orchestras), chamber
music concerts with various groups, solo work in
the form of concertos, recitals, and my
words-and-music presentations (more details on his website), as well
as working with amateur orchestras and ensembles
as conductor and wind chamber music coach, which
I love doing." |
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John Hughes was the
flute player for the prog-rock band of the early
seventies, "Gravy Train". Formed in
1970 they were signed to the Vertigo label and
released their debut self-titled album in January
1971. Encompassing elements of folk, blues and
hard rock, this debut album, although not selling
in droves, established Gravy Train as a band to
look out for. They released their second and
final album for the label, "Ballad of a
Peaceful Man" in December of that year. This
was in all respects a better album, but still
didn't sell in the numbers that the powers that
be were happy with, and the band was dropped,
only to be snatched up by Dawn Records. The third
album, "Second Birth", released in
1973, is generally believed to be their weakest
album. The fourth album, "Staircase to the
Day" was a masterful return to form, and
featured stunning sleeve artwork by none other
than the great Roger Dean. |
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Roy Corkill was
also in Black and has a long history of playing
with Liverpool's finest including The Icicle
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