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English male singer-songwriters

  • David BowieDavid Bowie was born David Robert Jones on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London, and he died two days after releasing his final album, on the 10th of…
  • John LennonAt approximately 5:00 p.m. on the 8th of December 1980, John Lennon autographed a copy of his new album for a man named Mark David Chapman outside his New…
  • George MichaelGeorge Michael died on Christmas Day 2016, at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. He was 53. His partner, Fadi Fawaz, found him in bed in the early…
  • Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney wrote his first song, "I Lost My Little Girl", on a £15 Framus Zenith acoustic guitar he had traded for a nickel-plated trumpet his father…
  • Ed SheeranEd Sheeran was eleven years old when he heard Eric Clapton walk on stage at the Queen's Golden Jubilee concert in June 2002 and play the opening riff of…
  • Cat StevensCat Stevens sold more than 100 million records before he walked away from pop music entirely. Born Steven Demetre Georgiou on the 21st of July 1948, in the…
  • George HarrisonGeorge Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool, on the 25th of February 1943, in a terraced house on a cul-de-sac with an outdoor toilet…
  • Eric ClaptonEric Patrick Clapton was born on the 30th of March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, to a sixteen-year-old mother and a Canadian soldier who had already shipped back…
  • Ringo StarrRingo Starr was born on the 7th of July 1940 at 9 Madryn Street in Dingle, one of the oldest and poorest inner-city districts in Liverpool.
  • Jeff LynneJeff Lynne was born on the 30th of December 1947 in Erdington, Birmingham, a city that shaped everything about him, including an accent he never lost.
  • Julian LennonJulian Lennon was born John Charles Julian Lennon on the 8th of April 1963 at Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool, carrying a name almost nobody calls him…
  • Tony SheridanTony Sheridan was born Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity on the 21st of May 1940 in Norwich, Norfolk, and he holds a distinction that even most devoted…