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Local Heroes in Liverpool, Merseyside*

Liverpool, Merseyside Famous Residents

Cringing Cult of Celebrity (Famous residents and ex-residents.)

• Jimmy "I know a golf joke" Tarbuck and Cilla "I'm scouse honest chuck" Black - Thank God they left when they got a bit of fame.
• The first and and most inspirational gore grind band carcass!!!
• TONS of great bands... (not The Coral, they're from the Wirral), but there is also the Bandits, Hokum Clones, Maybes, half of The Basement, half of Ladytron, My Bloody Valentine, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Farm, Clinic (from Crosby), Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Space, Apollo 440, Cast, Lightning Seeds, The Crescent. Oh, and the Beatles.
• I live in Liverpool and remember a great soul/pop group called THE CHRISTIANS. They had a string of hits in the 1980s and were brilliant! Also - anybody remember Billy Fury? He was Britan's answer to Elvis and was the number one male solo artist of the 1960s.
• frankie goes to holloywood. BRIAN SUMNER (so what dwarfed by Geoff Rowley) and Craig Charles from Red Dwarf
• One of the greatest - Ted Ray (and if you don't remember him, you missed a comic genius). Arthur Askey. And when is Kenn Dodd going to get a knighthood? No doubt, all the best comics come from Liverpool. Well, they would, wouldn't they?
• Some band from the 60s had a small amount of local fame thats about it really
• Not forgettin the legendary skateboarder from liverpool ..... Geoff Rowley who is a world class skater
• Regularly see the likes of Jimmy Corkhill (Dean Sullivan)of Brookie fame.
• HEY, YOU FORGOT TO GIVE A MENTION TO OUR OWN ELVIS COSTELLO AKA DECLAN PATRICK ALOYSIOUS MCMANUS. HE ALWAYS SHOUTS OUT THE PRAISES OF LIVERPOOL, HIS MUM STILL LIVES HERE TOO.GO ON GIVE HIM A MENTION, OK,A GREAT AMBASSADOR! I SHOULD KNOW HE'S RELATED TO ME!!!
• The lad from Toxteth who discovered one of the planets and died at the age of 21. Anyone remember his name?
• Rita Tushingham - close to Benny's Bakery.
• Loads! Beatles (obviously), Atomic Kitten, not Mel CShe is a plastic Scouser), cast, Echo&the bunnymen, John Parrot, Almost the entire cast of Brookside, Claire Sweeney, cilla Black, Anne Robinson, Jimmy Tarbuck, Stan Boardman, footballers Stephen Gerrard, Jamie Carragher & loads more! In fact it seems every second E-list celebrity in Britain is (or makes out to be ) from Liverpool
• Anne Robinson Cherie Blair Ken Dodd Paul McCartney
• katie rogers, put a smile on ya face, its not nice 2 b snotty!
• erm the beatles, atomic kitten, cast!, :-/ say no more!
• the beatles
• Jim Bennett is one of the great poets who has come from Liverpool. A brillient performer who appears with the Dead Good Poets in Liverpool at the Pilgrim Pub, 1st Thursday of each Month. A fab singer and songwriter also.
• John Lennon and George Harrison - RIP
• Jim Bennett (sadly better known in the States, than here) prolific writer and poet. The greatest of them all: Ken Dodd - funniest (and clean with it) comediene England has. Johny Marlowe (used to be Johnny and the Whipcords) still playing the clubs and making a good living at it.
• om mi god isnt she off brookie
• Jimmy Corkhill he's a scally and a half and his wife's a bean ye cannae get a better scally than him! alright alright calm down calm down
• The Beatles, santa lookalike 'big Abe' Xavier lives in the Queen Square Marriot and, of course, the poor mans posh 'n' becks - Louise and Jamie Redknapp.
• Bloody footballers, loads of soap stars (Hollyoaks and Brooky) and 4 lads who shhok the world (there's museums for them)
• liverpool footy club manager
• Tarbie!
• Dr Duncan, the world's first city medical officer. Dr Duncan is corremorated in the name of an excellent new pub next to the Swallow hotel. John Birt, Cherie Blair, Peter Sissons.
• Fred the weatherman, the cast of Hollyoaks (probably not a pulling point)and loads of bands- Cast, Space etc. Although I don't think he's a resident, the drummer from Gomez has been spotted several times in The Krazy House (nobody cares do they? Ah, the apathy)
• the spinners yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
• Gerry Marsden from Gerry & The Pacemakers "Mr Merseyside" He's genuine, really nice bloke, Top Scouser! and he STILL lives on Merseyside, not done a runner down south with the rest of em i.e. Jimmy Tabuck, Cilla Black etc.
• Gerry (Mr Merseyside) Marsden came from the Dingle. "so ferry 'cross the Mersey 'cause this lands the place I love and here I'll stay" and he has!
• the spinners came from liverpool and they ROCK
• Gerry Marsden of "Gerry & The Pacemakers" fame came from Liverpool and he still lives here. I've met him and he's a really nice bloke!! Hes got a great website http://www.gerrymarsden.com
• William Ewart Gladstone(born here 1809) Adolf Hitler(so they say: his brother *definitely* lived here*) Nathaniel Hawthorne(American Consul 1854-9) George Stubbs(painter and anatomist born here) Robert Morris(signatory to the Declaration of Independence, born here 1734) Brandon Thomas(author of Charley's Aunt, born here 1856) Sir Adrian Boult(conductor, born here 1887) Nicholas Monsarrat(author, born here 1910) John Bellingham, assassin of Prime Minister Spencer Percival, lived here. Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick, began his seafaring here in 1839. Captain Noel Chavasse, double VC, was the son of the Bishop of Liverpool. Washington Irving(author, Rip Van Winkle, managed a warehouse here 1815-8). Frank Hornby(maker of Dinky Toys, Meccanno and Hornby trains, born here 1863.
• Cilla Black - uses her scouse upbringing to her best (commercial) effect and then slags off the city - congratulations to all at John Moores University for refusing to give her an honorary degree
• Almost every football club manager who isn't Scottish (Watch Match of the Day and see for yourself, the Scouse accent never totally disappears)
• Paul McGann (Withnail & I; Doctor Who), Stephen McGann (The Hanging Gale) Joe, Mark, and Claire McGann (Paul and Steve would be killed if I didn't mention them).
• Brookside.
• Frankie goes to Hollywood.
• The Beatles.

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• That tramp that stands in Whitechapel singing with a peice of cardboard shaped like a Guitar! Bootle.
• well the knobhead with the brass who thinks skins are racist deserves a few 2p's....threw at his head
• theres sum tramp an he plays a guitar made out of cardboard hes a right loony
• Theres a santa claus bloke who plays a tape and dances to it. And theres the normal instrument playing variety everywhere.
• Baz thre trumpet player on Bold Street and there's a tramp called Jack Nesbitt who sometimes mimes a cardboard guitar arounf Mathew Street.
• the guy who looks like Jesus and plays an electric violin, usually on Bold Street also theres the guy who used to play the cardboard box and pretend it was a guitar, who then upgraded to a tennis racket and now plays a cardboard cut out of a guitar, he also tends to be dressed as Santa.
• me gettin thrown peeny at dont know none but they all stink anyway although there is some aribian fella who does poems for 50p
• Most residents on a Saturday night try their hand at this. I'm also always amused by the woman who has been pregnant for six years and uses this to beg for money
• "Plink a plink" This guy sings & plays a cardboard guitar with the strings drawn on! He has a limited number of cassettes for sale, also made from cardboard. Usually outside "Flannagans" Mathew Street on Friday & Saturday nights.
• Sometime fire jugglers, irish penny whistlers, and men who sing to dancing puppets. Mostly in the environs of Williamson Square.
• Bold Street.
• They are everywhere.

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