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    Quote Originally Posted by scouserdave View Post
    Didn't The Real Thing come from Toxteth? I know they had an album called Liverpool 8. Chris Amoo is now a dog breeder. I think he won Crufts in 1987. Well, not him exactly, more like his Afghan Hound
    Yes they were, started out as The Chants in the 60s.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SteH View Post
    Yes they were, started out as The Chants in the 60s.
    They never. There was an age gap between them.
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    Chris & Eddie who are brothers were in the Chants.
    The other members of the Real Thing were Kenny Davis (who unfortunately was not still in the group when they got their fame). Also there was Ray Lake and Dave Smith.

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    "The Real Thing" Biography on allmusic.com by Andrew Hamilton

    Northern soul had emerged in the north of England when the Real Thing formed in 1970, but the disco/funk/soul quartet couldn't get into the obscure R&B sounds, preferring instead the more progressive soul of the Temptations, Barry White, and funk jams. The Liverpool natives aspired for international success, a dream that went unfulfilled. Original members Chris Amoo, Dave Smith, Kenny Davis, and Ray Lake began by covering and remaking popular American recordings, . . .

    For unknown reasons, Davis left, and the Real Thing continued as a trio, doing some commercials, as well as live gigs. Their career began to sprout wings when David Essex started producing their initial Pye Recordings. Opening for Essex, they toured all over, even the States, the home of the music they loved. Initial collaborations with Essex, like previous recordings, were turntable hits, but sold few copies. By this time, Amoo' brother Eddie, who had sung with the Chants on Pye, joined the Real Thing. The Liverpool-bred but Ghanaian parentage brothers started writing songs that fleshed out their albums. Later, Loose Ends recorded an Amoo composition, "In the Sky," for their Virgin Records debut in 1980.

    The Real Thing hooked up with Ken Gold, and boom, "You to Me Are Everything" aced the British pop chart and placed number 66 pop and number 29 soul in the States. Their first album, titled The Real Thing, contained their chart busters and previous singles. The group wanted to call their second LP Liverpool 8, the name of the racially mixed section of Liverpool where they grew up with Asians, Africans, Chinese, Irish, and anyone else who couldn't afford more opulent surroundings. Pye Records didn't like the name, so they compromised with Four From Eight, which meant nothing to anyone outside of Britain. . . .
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    Hi all

    I've got another one. According to Wikipedia, Liverpool comedian Tommy Handley was born in Toxteth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
    Hi all

    I've got another one. According to Wikipedia, Liverpool comedian Tommy Handley was born in Toxteth.

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    Tommy Handley later lived in Riversdale Road, next door to Battlecrease, the Maybrick house.
    There is a little block of flats called Handley Court on the site now.
    (Battlecrease is still there).

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    Tommy Handley later lived in Riversdale Road, next door to Battlecrease, the Maybrick house.
    There is a little block of flats called Handley Court on the site now.
    (Battlecrease is still there).
    Thanks, Philip. I have been in Battlecrease House and used to live on Aigburth Hall Avenue up the road from Riversdale Road. I had not made the connection between Handley Court and Tommy Handley, thanks for that information!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
    Which people?
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    Default Famous people from Toxteth and Edge Hill:

    The list then:

    Ringo Star
    Gerry Marsden
    Arthur Askey
    John Gregson (actor)
    Eddie Bradin (wrote the Morcambe & Wise shows)
    Billy Fury
    George Melly
    Commander James Bulloch (American Confederate Navy). Lived and died in Canning St and buried in Toxteth cemetary.
    Jeremiah Horrocks (discovered Venus)
    William Hitler (Adolf's nephew) born and brought up in Stanhope St.
    Robbie Fowler (footballer)
    Joseph Williamson (The Mole of Edge Hill)
    Lita Roza - a singer from the 50s - she's from Lodge Lane
    John Gregson - actor - Lodge Lane
    Ian Callaghan - played more games for Liverpool Fc than anyone else was born and raised in Toxteth
    Phina Oruche -actress who played Liberty in Footballers Wives and now in I'm a celebrity (born in Nigeria but raised in Toxteth)
    Mark Moraghan - Holby City/ex Brookside actor born/raised there.
    John Lennon once shared a flat with Stuart Sutcliffe at No. 3 Gambier Terrace.
    Curtis Warren, drug baron. Featured on the Times 100 Rich List.

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    Hi Kev

    It's Eddie Braben not Bradin. You also need comedians Billy Matchett and Tommy Handley.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kev View Post
    The list then:

    Ringo Star
    Gerry Marsden
    Arthur Askey
    John Gregson (actor)
    Eddie Bradin (wrote the Morcambe & Wise shows)
    Billy Fury
    George Melly
    Commander James Bulloch (American Confederate Navy). Lived and died in Canning St and buried in Toxteth cemetary.
    Jeremiah Horrocks (discovered Venus)
    William Hitler (Adolf's nephew) born and brought up in Stanhope St.
    Robbie Fowler (footballer)
    Joseph Williamson (The Mole of Edge Hill)
    Lita Roza - a singer from the 50s - she's from Lodge Lane
    John Gregson - actor - Lodge Lane
    Ian Callaghan - played more games for Liverpool Fc than anyone else was born and raised in Toxteth
    Phina Oruche -actress who played Liberty in Footballers Wives and now in I'm a celebrity (born in Nigeria but raised in Toxteth)
    Mark Moraghan - Holby City/ex Brookside actor born/raised there.
    John Lennon once shared a flat with Stuart Sutcliffe at No. 3 Gambier Terrace.
    Curtis Warren, drug baron. Featured on the Times 100 Rich List.

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    You have two John Gregsons. Missed Tommy Handley (was he actually Toxteth?) and the James Bond girl who came out of the water. Peter Sissons may have come from/lived in Toxteth. He went to the same primary school as John Lennon, Dovedale in Penny Lane. Penny Lane is mostly in Toxteth. He may have been on the Toxteth side.

    John Lennon in Newcastle Rd was just outside Toxeth by about 100 yards, although he spent lots of time at a relatives house in Copperfield Street.
    He also lived In Falkner St (Epsteins flat) and Garmoyle Road - both in Toxteth.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
    Hi Kev

    It's Eddie Braben not Bradin. You also need comedians Billy Matchett and Tommy Handley.

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    I have never heard of Billy Matchett.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
    I have never heard of Billy Matchett.
    Hello Waterways

    Billy Matchett (1889-1974) was my grandfather's brother, a comedian known as the "Mirthquake" and "The last of the red-nosed comics," was brought up at 46 Merlin Street in Toxteth, and his father George T. Matchett was a docker. He was educated at the Harrington Board School in Toxteth. Granted he is an older comedian and not known today but he did appear at the Empire and the Royal Court and throughout the land in pantomime (usually as the Dame) and, in his later years, Old Tyme Music Hall. I remember going to see him in Southport in one of his last appearances.

    We maybe should also include William Roscoe, who lived for a time in the Dingle, and the Rathbone family, who owned the Greenbank estate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
    You have two John Gregsons. Missed Tommy Handley (was he actually Toxteth?) and the James Bond girl who came out of the water. Peter Sissons may have come from/lived in Toxteth. He went to the same primary school as John Lennon, Dovedale in Penny Lane. Penny Lane is mostly in Toxteth. He may have been on the Toxteth side.

    John Lennon in Newcastle Rd was just outside Toxeth by about 100 yards, although he spent lots of time at a relatives house in Copperfield Street.
    He also lived In Falkner St (Epsteins flat) and Garmoyle Road - both in Toxteth.

    The Wikipedia site on Tommy Handley says he was born in Toxteth. The BBC site on Handley says he was born at 13 Threlfall Street.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
    Garmoyle Road - in Toxteth.
    Isn't Garmoyle Road in Wavertree? And isnt Garmoyle Road located in the L15 district of Liverpool? And isn't Newcastle Road located in the Woolton district of Liverpool, also known as L15?
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