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20th-century English singer-songwriters

  • David BowieDavid Robert Jones was born on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London. His mother worked as a waitress at a cinema while his father managed promotions…
  • John LennonJohn Winston Lennon was born on the 9th of October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. His father Alfred worked as a merchant seaman and was away during…
  • George MichaelGeorgios Kyriacos Panayiotou arrived in East Finchley, Middlesex on the 25th of June 1963. He was the youngest child and only son of a Greek Cypriot…
  • Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney was born on the 18th of June 1942 at Walton Hospital in the Walton area of Liverpool. His mother Mary Patricia Mohin worked as a nurse and…
  • Kate BushKate Bush was born on the 30th of July 1958 at a maternity hospital in Bexleyheath, Kent. Her father Robert Bush worked as an English doctor and her mother…
  • George HarrisonOn the 25th of February 1943, George Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool. He grew up as the youngest of four children to Harold and…
  • Jeff LynneJeffrey Lynne was born on the 30th of December 1947 in Erdington, Birmingham. His father bought him an acoustic guitar for just £2, a instrument he still…