Colin Eric Allen is a jazz/blues drummer and songwriter who was born in Bournemouth in 1938. He has played with a number of artists, including Zoot Money, Andy Summers (The Police), Bob Dylan, John Lee Hooker, Solomon Burke, Marc Bolan and T.Rex, Focus (the Dutch band best known for the […]
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James Guy Payne Audain was born 8th July 1903 in Bournemouth. He was the son of Colonel Guy Mortimer Audain, originally from Ireland, who served in the Army in India in the Hyderabad Contingent of the Indian army. His mother, Sarah Byrd Dunsmuir, was daughter of former B.C. Premier and […]
Emma Stephens is an actress who was born in Bournemouth and who is headed up the stairway to stardom. After training at the Bridget Baugi Acadamy, the Big Little Youth Theatre and the Jo Heynes school of dance, Emma moved to London to train at Laine Theatre Arts, graduating three […]
Don Partridge was an English singer and songwriter, popularly known as the King of the Buskers”, and had a one hit success with his song Rosie in 1968, when it reached #4 on the UK Singles charts. Born in Bournemouth in 1941, Don had an interesting early life, leaving home […]
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry was born in Bournemouth in 1848 and is best known for the choral song Jerusalem Hubert was the sixth child to be born to his upper middle class parents, three of his siblings dying while infants and his mother dying when he was 12 days […]
Richard Palmer-James is best known for writing the lyrics for a number of early King Crimson songs, and for being a founder member of the band Supertramp. He was born in Bournemouth in 1947, and played with various local bands before joining King Crimson. Richard wrote the lyrics for 3 […]
Melita Norwood was a KGB agent for 40 years, and her identity was only revealed in 1999 following the defection of another agent. Born in 1912 in the Pokesdown suburb of Bournemouth, Melita Stedman Norwood was recruited by the KGB in 1937 and was given the codename “Hola”. She was […]
Alison Newman is an actress, born in Bournemouth in 1968, and best known for her role as Hazel Bailey in the UK television series Footballer’s Wives. Her parents, both school teachers, encouraged her to have an interest in acting, but did not enourage her to go to stage school when […]
Well it’s not everyone that is born into a money family, but in 1942 George Bruno Money did just that, and yes the family name is actually “money”. George always had a love of music, playing the french horn and singing in the choir at school, and in 1961 having […]
Lee Kerslake was born in Bournemouth in 1947 and is best known as drummer for Uriah Heep and the Ozzy Osbourne band. Lee first joined Uriah Heep in 1971, and played with the band until 1979, when he left but rejoined in 1982. He left the band in 2007 due […]