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Mixing hillbilly and blues, Elvis Presley’s musical contribution was immense. But his truly liberating contribution was in busting the shackles that restrained movement. He...
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Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine — joined forces in 1949 at a Westminster pub, Grafton’s, run by scriptwriter Jimmy Grafton...
Claim to Fame: With a career that spanned more than five decades, mastering music, film and TV, Sinatra was larger than life. The skinny...
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Hampshire. In 1814, his family moved to London and then to Chatham, where Charles...
Sir John Betjeman’s public image is that of a lifelong devotee of the English upper classes. In a 40-year career as a poet, he...
Mixing hillbilly and blues, Elvis Presley’s musical contribution was immense. But his truly liberating contribution was in busting the shackles that restrained movement. He...
On December 11, 1951, Joe DiMaggio turned his back on the highest salary in sports and left the game that he dominated with such...
Born in 1940, Tom Jones began life as Tommy Woodward, the son of a miner in the tough Welsh mining town of Pontypridd. There...
In 1953 Diana Dors was on the verge of becoming the most well known film star in Britain. Married to Denis Hamilton Gittins she...
Keith Moon is remembered as the world’s most outrageous rock drummer – a star as famous for his drink and drug-fuelled pranks as for...