Abrahams, Doris Caroline [pseud. Caryl Brahms] (1901–1982), writer and songwriter, was born at 28 Morland Road, Croydon, Surrey, on 8 December 1901, the only child of Henry Clarence Abrahams, a wholesale jeweller, and his wife, Pearl, one of the twenty-one children of ...
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Abrahams, Doris Caroline [pseud. Caryl Brahms] (1901–1982), writer and songwriter
Ned Sherrin
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Aitken, Laurel [real name Oliver Anthony Stephens] (1925–2005), singer, songwriter, and record producer
Steve Barker
Aitken, Laurel [real name Oliver Anthony Stephens] (1925–2005), singer, songwriter, and record producer, was born on 22 April 1925, in Jamaica, one of six children of a Jamaican father and a Cuban mother. His early years were spent in Havana, Cuba, but the family moved to ...
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Amoo, Edward Robert [Eddy] (1944–2018)
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Amoo, Edward Robert [Eddy] (1944–2018), singer and songwriter
Spencer Leigh
Amoo, Edward Robert [Eddy] (1944–2018), singer and songwriter, was born on 5 May 1944 at the Smithdown Road Infirmary, 126 Smithdown Road, Liverpool, the son of Robert Ofei Amoo (1917–1989), an engine greaser in the merchant navy, and his wife, ...
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Barnard [née Pye], Charlotte Alington [pseud. Claribel] (1830–1869), balladeer and poet
W. B. Squire
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Barnard [née Pye], Charlotte Alington [pseud. Claribel] (1830–1869), balladeer and poet, was born at The Cedars, St Mary's Lane, Louth, Lincolnshire, on 23 December 1830, the only child of Henry Pye (1799–1883), a solicitor, and his first wife, Charlotte Mary Yerburgh...
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Barrett, Roger Keith [Syd] (1946–2006), musician and songwriter
Rikky Rooksby
Barrett, Roger Keith [Syd] (1946–2006), musician and songwriter, was born on 6 January 1946 at 60 Glisson Road, Cambridge, the fourth of five children of Arthur Max Barrett, medical practitioner, and his wife, Winifred Flack, née Heeps. Educated at the Cambridge and County High School for Boys...
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Bart [formerly Begleiter], Lionel (1930–1999), song-writer and composer of musicals
Mark Wheeler
Bart [formerly Begleiter], Lionel (1930–1999), song-writer and composer of musicals, was born on 1 August 1930 at 24 Underwood Road in the East End of London to a Jewish family, the youngest of the eleven children of Morris Begleiter, a master tailor, and his wife, ...
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Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin, second baronet (1859–1935), songwriter and philanthropist
Anne Pimlott Baker
Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin, second baronet (1859–1935), songwriter and philanthropist, was born at Lower Woolwich Road, Charlton, Kent, on 7 August 1859, the elder son and third of eight children of Samuel Bagster Boulton (1830–1918), of Copped Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, who was created baronet in 1905, and his wife, ...
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Brooksbank [née Soutar], Mary Watson (1897–1978), revolutionary and songwriter
Graham R. Smith
Brooksbank [née Soutar], Mary Watson (1897–1978), revolutionary and songwriter, was born on 15 December 1897 at 29 Shiprow, Aberdeen, the only daughter of five children born to Alexander Soutar (1867–1953), dock labourer and founding member of Aberdeen Dockers' Union, and his wife, ...
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Maker: Fin Costello
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Brown, Errol Ainsworth Glenstor (1943–2015), singer and songwriter
Chloe Govan
Brown, Errol Ainsworth Glenstor (1943–2015), singer and songwriter, was born on 12 November 1943 in Kingston, Jamaica. The result of a teenage pregnancy, he barely knew his police officer father, Ivan Brown, from whom his mother Edna (d. 1963), a secretary, had become estranged shortly after his birth. Desperate to rescue her son from a cultural backdrop of poverty and gang violence, ...
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Browne, George Edric (1920–2007), singer, songwriter, and actor
Val Wilmer
Browne, George Edric (1920–2007), singer, songwriter, and actor, was born Edric Browne on 4 May 1920 in Corbeau Town, Port of Spain, Trinidad, the only son and youngest of three children of Ernest Browne, a government printer, and his wife, Frances, née Noriega...
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Browne, George Edric (1920–2007)
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Cameron, William [nicknamed Hawkie] (c. 1787–1851), pedlar and beggar
David M. Hopkin
Cameron, William [nicknamed Hawkie] (c. 1787–1851), pedlar and beggar, was probably born at St Ninians, Stirlingshire, the son of Dugald Cameron of Braemar, a mashman, and his wife, Janet Paterson. As members of the Burgher Secession church the family barely feature in parochial registers, so details of ...
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Campbell, Ian (1933–2012), folk singer and songwriter
Ken Hunt
Campbell, Ian (1933–2012), folk singer and songwriter, was born on 10 June 1933 at 89 Skene Street, Aberdeen, the son of David Dunn Campbell, fish worker and later a trade union official, and his wife, Isabella Armstrong, née Sutherland. He was the eldest of four children, followed by his brother, ...
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Campion, Thomas (1567–1620), poet and musician
David Lindley
Campion, Thomas (1567–1620), poet and musician, was born in London on 12 February 1567 and baptized on the following day at St Andrew's, Holborn, the second child of John Campion (d. 1576) and Lucy, née Searle (d. 1580), widow of Roger Trigg...
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Capaldi, Nicola James [Jim] (1944–2005), musician, singer, and songwriter
Ken Hunt
Capaldi, Nicola James [Jim] (1944–2005), musician, singer, and songwriter, was born on 2 August 1944 at 5 Avonside, Evesham, Worcestershire, the eldest of seven children of Nicola (Nicholas) Capaldi (1913–2005) and his wife, Marie, née Houchin (1913–1987). At the time of his birth registration the family lived at ...
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Carey, Henry (1687–1743), poet and songwriter
Suzanne Aspden
Carey, Henry (1687–1743), poet and songwriter, was born on or about 26 August 1687. The Gentleman's Magazine for July 1795 claimed he was the illegitimate son of George Savile, marquess of Halifax (1633–1695). Circumstantial evidence supports a Savile connection: three of Carey's sons were named ...
