David Bowie
David Bowie, née Jones, (1947-2016) was an extraordinary songwriter and singer, musician, painter and actor of the 1970s-80s who became a cult […]
David Bowie, née Jones, (1947-2016) was an extraordinary songwriter and singer, musician, painter and actor of the 1970s-80s who became a cult […]
World War 2 brought many cultural changes, one of which was the birth of modern British comedy, led courageously by The Goon […]
Rightly dubbed ‘Mr. Entertainment’, Sir Bruce Forsyth, CBE (1928-2017) had a show business career from age fourteen to just a couple of […]
In 1968, around 15,000 people paid 25 shillings each to attend the first Isle of Wight Festival, featuring Jefferson Airplane, T-Rex and […]
Rock band Status Quo first formed in London in 1962 as The Scorpions. Co-founder Francis Rossi, OBE (1949-) from London, lead singer, […]
Sir Laurence Olivier (1907-89) was born in Surrey and became a highly revered, indeed legendary, Shakespearean actor and director, and had some […]
In the 1970s, pubs were seeing their businesses decline due to people staying in to watch television every night. The pub quiz […]
The rock band Queen was formed by lead vocalist extraordinaire, pianist and guitarist Freddie Mercury (1946-91), lead guitarist Brian May (1947-), bass […]
Active from 1965 to 1995, Pink Floyd set the standard for pyrotechnics at rock concerts and were pioneers in psychedelic rock. Not […]
The ‘Harry Potter‘ series of seven fantasy novels was written by Joanne Rowling (pen name J.K. Rowling) and has been a phenomenal […]
The Who have two surviving members of the original band ~ singer Roger Daltrey (1944-) and songwriter-guitarist Pete Townshend (1945-). With drummer […]
Fanny Cradock (1909-94) was not quite the first TV chef to grace British screens, but she could lay claim to being the […]
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