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Jo Stafford

SOMETIMES she was known as Darlene Edwards and, when she was parodying the hilly-billy style and drawling speech, she favoured Cinderella G Stump. Read

Blondie's Debbie Harry on form at the Liverpool Summer Pops

MUSIC REVIEW: Blondie and The Stranglers, Summer Pops, Liverpool

ROCK and roll is forever, but rock and rollers aren’t immortal until a great song thunders from the stage and trem-bles the souls of those gathered below, blowing away the years in celebration of what used to be and still can be – in your dreams. Read

Lord Stokes

IT WAS said that the man, with glinting spectacles and an enthusiasm for double-decker buses, could have sold Morris Marinas to Marsh Arabs. Read

Exhibition for OAPs

AN EXHIBITION to help pensioners take up arts and crafts by showing them the work of others is being held at 1pm tomorrow at St John’s School, Liverpool Road, Ainsdale. Read

David Charters: smiles in a manner which says “caught you”

THE shapely young woman with lime-green eye shadow, ear-plugs and a very short, floral dress crossed one long leg over the other one on her seat half-way down the carriage of the 8.37 train to work. Read

Tony Melody

THE appointments’ panel at a firm of undertakers, seeing him walk through the door, could have told the other applicants to go home. Read

Hugh Mendl

THE public school boy, who had been groomed for the diplomatic service, didn’t actually give birth to The Beatles himself. Read

Fairytales really can come true

Fairytales really can come true

IT'S Liverpool’s own fairytale about how a beautiful little girl from a comprehensive school became a princess in a distant land. David Charters reports Read

Hugh Cornwell from The Stranglers

Stranglers, still wild after all these years

FROM punk rock to distant thoughts of the bus-pass years, a Strangler contemplates bra-throwing in the years to come. David Charters reports. Read

Dorothy Bradburn

SHE disliked the way our local press gives precedence to a person’s place of birth or residence, rather than their achievements – as in the Tupelo crooner, Mr Elvis Presley, or the son of a Kirkcaldy minister, Mr Gordon Brown. Read

Hugh Lloyd

HE WAS the only celebrity supporter of Chester City Football Club, perhaps explaining his wonderfully long, but crumpled, face, which suggested the pessimism of a down-trodden suburbanite in permanent expectation of rain, while clinging to the threads of middle-class respectability. Read

Breathing life into the cold hard clay

Breathing life into the cold hard clay

PASSION fills the sculptor as he considers his next job – the meeting of Ken Dodd and Bessie Braddock in Lime Street station. David Charters reports Read

David Charters: Had my life thus far lacked purpose?

THE grey sky was as sad as an orphan’s limp. But I was sitting in the warmth of our conservatory, sensing an unexpected growth spurt in the nail on the big toe of my left foot. Read

Valerie Bennett-Levy

IT IS a profoundly religious ceremony, in which the monarch hands out Maundy money to the poor, on the day before Good Friday, in remembrance of Christ washing the feet of His disciples. Read

Bob Bradock with the memorial to the Internatonal Brigades Association

Remembered: the 160 men from Merseyside who fought in the Spanish Civil War

THEY died young for their ideals. Now, 70 years on, the bravery of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War is to be commemorated in Liverpool. David Charters reports Read

Dorian Leigh

IT IS perhaps surprising that the willowy beauty, adored by photographers, lipstick advertisers and movie-makers, who cruised through five husbands in a career which makes today’s supermodel, Kate Moss, seem like a girl guide, should have studied calculus at university. Read

Fred Yates

YOU don’t expect a great artist to be called Fred – Frederico, maybe, but not plain Fred. Read

Elizabeth Spriggs

SHE wobbled around the jowls while her bosom quivered with splendid indignation and she was, of course, magnificently cast as Lady Gay Spanker, sporting jodphurs and whip, in the Restoration-style romp London Assurance. Read

Sir Charles Wheeler

BENEATH the professorial eccentricity of his eyebrows, there was the grey stare of a man who had observed the ways of fools in many lands and had very little reason to suppose that the future held anything better. Read

David Charters: An inner sense advises us that something is going to be romantic

YOU know, these days, the most under-rated quality in the world is romance. Its slow going is felt by us in so many ways. Read

Author Profile

Award-winning feature writer and columnist David Charters is a highly-respected journalist and author whose hugely-popular weekly column is now available in print and podcast format. Tel: 0151 4722427

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