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Morris prepares to peel off the layers

God and George Melly are among topics discussed by the Naked Ape man, soon to be seen dressed in Birkenhead, for an exhibition of his paintings. David Charters reports Read

David Charters: Yes, the Italians are cool, but we are eccentric

"TRULY, it is not possible,” invoked the French logician in the sharp navy shorts and thick-lensed spectacles, designed for the magnification of every human foible, as he joined the meandering queue to the ferry’s ticket-office – his frustration and indignation borne on severely white legs, carpeted by priest-black hairs, which stopped abruptly one and a half inches above his ankles. Read

Harold Ackroyd

YOU can almost hear the fanfares, the roar of the lion and the sounding of that great gong when their names are mentioned – the Rivoli, the Empire, the Odeon, the Gaumont, the Coliseum, the Astoria, the Scala, the Regal and Roxy, the Stella, the Ritz, the Plaza, the Grand and so on and on. Read

David Hammond

IF YOU could see his face again, white hair fluffing under a woollen cap, an unflinching stare, firm nose and jaw, the quizzically smiling lips, from which some fine ballads of loss and love had broken on those foaming nights, you would know that his country had needed him. Read

A professional approach to murder

Murders most foul will join microscopes and quills at a conference about how thriller writers and forensic scientists can fight real crime. David Charters reports Read

Jack Hutton

ALTHOUGH his love was jazz and he could blow his trumpet with gusto and fine style, the man anticipated beat music and was there when the Beatles were rising – being greeted by John Lennon at the 1964 press conference, celebrating their arrival in New York, with words which can’t be published in a family paper. Read

Professor Tony Bradshaw

NEAR the end, the new certificate hung on the wall above his bed. He smiled in that shy way of the Englishman, who knows deep within that he deserves it, but will always be too modest to tolerate such a suggestion from others. Read

Fred Crane

HE WAS, by his own admission, a small shard in a grand mosaic but his drawl was so full of southern comfort that he was immediately cast as one of the goo-kneed, ever-doting swains, who danced to the whims of Scarlett O’Hara. Read

David Charters: The British leg is best hidden from the gaze of strangers

A COUPLE of weeks back, I was strolling through the old town in a pair of long, green trousers, wondering whether offices in the thrilling new Britain should be fitted with food-drips dangling from the ceilings, so that the happy workers need never leave their desks. Read

David Charters: Some said it was the first true British rock and roll record

THEY were never what you would call close friends, but the circumstances of life had drawn them together on many occasions – starting on the school playground. Read

Simon Gray

HE HATED the modern world, or at least he professed to, though he perhaps gained more from its easy ways and lack of conviction than he was prepared to admit, as he swapped his legendary intake of Scotch for three bottles of Champagne a day before finally quitting, while acknowledging his lung cancer by switching to the milder Silk Cut cigarettes. Read

Ben Murphy, at the Princes Park gates

New book reveals the historic heritage of Liverpool’s famous open spaces

WE take our parklands for granted, but here David Charters reveals their origins Read

How we lit the Olympic flame

As the biggest audience in world history anticipates the Olympics in Beijing, we remember the Liverpool origins of the modern Games. David Charters reports Read

George McNabb

HE DIED peacefully with his family around him, far away from the noisy, fog-cast docklands, where he grew up in a Liverpool community hardened by circumstances but never slow to embrace strangers. Read

Fund to restore Hulley’s grave

A FUND has been started to restore the grave of John Hulley, who rests in Toxteth Park Cemetery, Smithdown Road, Liverpool. Read

Artist Tony Brown with his portrait of George Harrison

Portrait of George Harrison completes epic work which recognises 100 Liverpool greats

WITH this magnificent portrait of George Harrison, a Liverpool artist has completed an epic work in praise of the city he loves. Read

Pauline Baynes

THERE was perhaps a sadness hidden in the smile of the white-haired lady from the lovely cottage, whose piercing imagination opened the world behind the blinds, where children could see everything and touch nothing. Read

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

HE WILL not be remembered for the laughter he brought us, but the man with the ever-mournful face had an intellect so big that it became the conscience of many, carrying the sorrows and hate of a world shredded by doctrine and greed. Read

David Charters: Sadly, steady work and red wine make uneasy partners

SOME people accept us for what we seem to be. Others want to know what we really are. The second group are the more important and dangerous, for they have a better understanding of human nature. Read

John Norman

THERE was, this being Wales, due consideration given to a cup of tea, but there was also dedication to the job, which arose from the enthusiasm of the workers. 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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