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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Aitken, Laurel [real name Oliver Anthony Stephens] (1925–2005), singer, songwriter, and record producer
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Bicknell, James David (1906–1988), record producer
Peter Martland
Bicknell, James David (1906–1988), record producer, was born on 1 September 1906 at 42 St John's Wood Road, London, the son of Gilbert Elhannan Bicknell, stockbroker, and his wife, Florence Ferrier Ross. He was educated in the high Anglican tradition of Marlborough College...
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Brown, Alexander [Sandy] (1929–1975), bandleader and acoustic architect
A. J. H. Latham
Brown, Alexander [Sandy] (1929–1975), bandleader and acoustic architect, was born on 25 February 1929 in Izatnagar, near Bareilly in India, the second son of John Brown, a railway engineer who died about 1936, and his wife, Minnie Henderson (d. 1975). His parents were Scottish and Presbyterian, although ...
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Clark, Alfred Corning (1873–1950), record and electrical goods manufacturer
Peter Martland
Clark, Alfred Corning (1873–1950), record and electrical goods manufacturer, was born in New York, USA, on 19 December 1873, the elder son of Walter Lowry Clark, a chocolate manufacturer, and his wife, Mary Rowe. His parents' families were both of English extraction and his background was distinctly patrician—his great-uncle had been a ...
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Culshaw, John Royds (1924–1980), record producer and television executive
Peter Martland
Culshaw, John Royds (1924–1980), record producer and television executive, was born on 28 May 1924 at 47 Lethbridge Road, Southport, Lancashire, one of at least two children of Percy Ellis Culshaw, banker's clerk, and his wife, Dorothy Royds. He attended first the Merchant Taylors' School...
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Ford, Emile (real name [Michael] Emile Telford Miller, also known as Emile Sweetnam) (1937–2016)
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Emile Ford (1937–2016), by unknown photographer, 1960
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Ford, Emile [real name (Michael) Emile Telford Miller; also known as Emile Sweetnam] (1937–2016), singer, musician, and sound engineer
Chloe Govan
Ford, Emile [real name (Michael) Emile Telford Miller; also known as Emile Sweetnam] (1937–2016), singer, musician, and sound engineer, was born on 16 October 1937 in Castries, St Lucia, the son of Frederick Edward Miller, later a high-profile member of the Barbadian parliament who served as minister for health and social services, and his wife ...
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Gaisberg, Frederick William (1873–1951), recording engineer and record company executive
Peter Martland
Gaisberg, Frederick William (1873–1951), recording engineer and record company executive, was born on 1 January 1873 in Washington, DC, the second of four children of Wilhelm Gaisberg and his wife, Emma, née Klenk. His father was the son of German émigrés and worked at the ...
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Gillett, Charles Thomas [Charlie] (1942–2010), disc jockey and musicologist
Elizabeth Kinder
Gillett, Charles Thomas [Charlie] (1942–2010), disc jockey and musicologist, was born on 20 February 1942 at 429 Marine Road, Morecambe, Lancashire, the elder son and second of three children of Anthony Walter Gillett (1912–1992), mechanical engineer and managing director of a light engineering firm, and his wife, ...
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Krahmer, Carlo [real name William Max Geserick Krahmer] (1914–1976), jazz drummer and record producer
Alun Morgan
Krahmer, Carlo [real name William Max Geserick Krahmer] (1914–1976), jazz drummer and record producer, was born on 11 March 1914 at 22 Cropley Street, Shoreditch, London, the son of William Henry Charles Krahmer, hairdresser's assistant, and his wife, Phoebe Murrell. He suffered from defective vision from birth and taught himself to play the drums. He subsequently received tuition from ...
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Lambert, Christopher Sebastian [Kit] (1935–1981), popular music manager and producer
Michael Brocken
Lambert, Christopher Sebastian [Kit] (1935–1981), popular music manager and producer, was born on 11 May 1935 at 7 Mills Buildings, Knightsbridge, London, the son of Constant Leonard Lambert (1905–1951), composer and critic, and his wife, Florence Chuter, who gave her name as F. Kaye...
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Legge, (Harry) Walter (1906–1979)
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Legge, (Harry) Walter (1906–1979), impresario and record producer
Peter Martland
Legge, (Harry) Walter (1906–1979), impresario and record producer, was born in Keith Grove, Ravenscourt Park, London, on 1 June 1906, the son (there was to be a younger sister) of Harry Legge (b. 1871) and his wife, Florence (b. 1871). His father was a successful tailor, and ...
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Lewis, Sir Edward Roberts (1900–1980), record and gramophone company executive
Peter Martland
Lewis, Sir Edward Roberts (1900–1980), record and gramophone company executive, was born at Allerton Mount, Duffield Road, Derby on 19 April 1900, the only son in the family of four children of Sir Alfred Edward Lewis (1868–1940), banker, and his wife, May Roberts...
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McNeish, Peter Campbell [stage name Pete Shelley] (1955–2018), singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Chloe Govan
McNeish, Peter Campbell [stage name Pete Shelley] (1955–2018), singer, songwriter, and guitarist, was born on 17 April 1955 at 48 Milton Street, Leigh, Lancashire, the son of John McNeish, a motor mechanic, and his wife Margaret, née Owen, a former millworker. He had a younger brother, ...
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Meek, Robert George [Joe] (1929–1967), record producer
Matthew Grimley
Meek, Robert George [Joe] (1929–1967), record producer, was born on 5 April 1929 at 8 Market Square, Newent, Gloucestershire, the second son of Alfred George Meek (d. 1950), a fish merchant, and his wife, Evelyn Mary (née Birt). His mother had hoped for a daughter and dressed him as a girl until he was four. ...
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Preston, (Sydney) Denis (1916–1979), jazz critic and record producer
Val Wilmer
Preston, (Sydney) Denis (1916–1979), jazz critic and record producer, was born Sidney Denis Prechner on 16 November 1916 at 13 Paget Road, Stoke Newington, London, the only son and second child of Louis (Lou) Prechner, businessman, and his wife, Sarah (Cissie), née Hobsbaum...
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Rowe, Richard Paul Brutton [Dick] (1921–1986), recording manager and record producer
Johnny Rogan
Rowe, Richard Paul Brutton [Dick] (1921–1986), recording manager and record producer, was born on 9 June 1921 at 84 Hamilton Terrace, St John's Wood, London, the son of Claude Bernard Rowe (1885–1963), stock jobber, and his wife, Florence Mary, née Gardner-Jones (1894–1965). Following family tradition, he was employed as a stock jobber until his late twenties. On 21 September 1946 he married ...
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Smith, Mark Edward [known as Mark E. Smith] (1957–2018), singer and songwriter
Michael T. Thornhill
Smith, Mark Edward [known as Mark E. Smith] (1957–2018), singer and songwriter, was born on 5 March 1957 at Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester, the son of John Edward (Jack) Smith, a journeyman plumber, and his wife Irene, née Brownhill. Along with three younger sisters, ...