Busker. Our picture shows him at London Zoo, 1953.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Al Purchase
Commemorated ati
Spirit of Soho Mural
Interesting that Coca Cola are specifically mentioned on the panel but not as...
Other Subjects
PRS for Music
Previously known as the Performing Rights Society. They have also erected plaques to Squeeze, Jethro Tull and Blur.
Les Miserables the musical
Originated in France as an album and then briefly as a show. Cameron Mackintosh got hold of it and the English show opened at the Barbican Centre in 1985. Moved first to the Palace and then on 3 A...
Tony Meehan
Drummer. Born Daniel Joseph Anthony Meehan at the New End Hospital, Hampstead. He was one of the original line-up of Cliff Richard's backing group, The Shadows. He left the group in 1961 and event...
Richard Tauber
Lyric tenor. Born Austria. An an international star he came to London a few times: 1931, 1938 and lastly when already diagnosed with lung cancer he was invited by the Vienna State Opera to perfor...
Hetty King
Music hall entertainer. Born Winifred Emms in New Brighton, Cheshire. She adopted her stage name when she appeared on stage at the Shoreditch Theatre, with her father, William Emms, who used the st...
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