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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,
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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 Connection, and Honky
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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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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.
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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 Works. |
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