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English male 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…
  • Ed SheeranEdward Christopher Sheeran was born on the 17th of February 1991 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. His family moved to Framlingham, Suffolk, when he was four years…
  • Cat StevensSteven Demetre Georgiou stood on the rooftop above his family's restaurant in Marylebone, London. He listened to musicals drifting from Denmark Street below.
  • 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…
  • Eric ClaptonEric Patrick Clapton was born on the 30th of March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey. His mother Patricia Molly Clapton was only sixteen years old when he arrived into…
  • Ringo StarrRichard Starkey arrived at 9 Madryn Street in Dingle, Liverpool on the 7th of July 1940. His early years were defined by poverty and severe health crises…
  • 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…
  • Julian LennonOn the 8th of April 1963, a boy named John Charles Julian Lennon entered the world at Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool.
  • Tony SheridanAnthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity arrived in Norwich on the 21st of May 1940. He grew up at 2 Hansell Road in Thorpe St Andrew while attending the City of…