Tommy Steele
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How Tommy Steele, Britain's biggest pin-up, was savaged by the teenage mob
Retrospective and Interview by Bob Stanley, The Times, 16 July 2018
Post-traumatic stress forced Tommy Steele to pass his rock'n'roll crown to Cliff Richard, he tells Bob Stanley. ...
Larry Parnes: The past master in idol speculation
Obituary by David Toop, The Times, 7 August 1989
David Toop on how Larry Parnes, who died last week, invented the British pop music star as a result of a meeting in a coffee ...
Report by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 16 May 1964
Norman Jopling and Peter Jones take a look at the pros and cons of pop star marriages ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. Thomas Hicks, 17 December 1936, Bermondsey, London, England ...
Alan Smith On Film Sets With The Tornados and Tommy Steele
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 8 February 1963
A HAUNTING theme-tune echoed across the stage of a dingy London theatre on Tuesday morning, as film cameras turned on that "Globetrotting" hit group, the ...
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