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Evelyn Keyes

Evelyn Keyes

IT WAS perhaps unfortunate that the sultry actress, whose bed was rarely cold, could have been married to her third husband at the time he was presented with a self-willed chimpanzee by another Hollywood siren, Read

Randy Pausch

HIS going was different – almost like a Hollywood weepie without the violins, soft voices and squeezed hands. Read

Spencer Leigh next to the John Lennon statue in Mathew Street, Liverpool

Spencer Leigh’s the rebel without a pause

"I HAVE been on film for longer than James Dean," says the authority on popular culture, as he settles his light frame on the corner of the double bed in the John Lennon suite at the Hard Days Night Hotel, Liverpool. Read

David Charters: Summer holidays, like Christmas, are to be anticipated rather than enjoyed

‘GOOD Heavens! Teabags on strings, eh. Don’t we live in an exciting and ever-improving world,” I said to my wife, while the kettle burped and bupped to the boil, under the Italian-wood fittings of the kitchen, found behind the conservatory on the south wing of our home. Read

Iconic father of Liverpool’s culture

Iconic father of Liverpool’s culture

WHEN musing on Liverpool’s culture, our thoughts turn to the masters of baton, string and wind, letters, clay and canvas, but who was our first Renaissance man? David Charters reports Read

Harry McLeish who worked at Cammell Laird shipyard in 1939 when the submarine Thetis set sail.

Tragedy of the Thetis

SEVENTY years ago, a shipyard apprentice watched the launch of the Thetis. A year later she dived, and 99 men died. Now that apprentice lives with his memories. David Charters reports. Read

Estelle Getty

IT WAS a bold idea, particularly for American TV, which traditionally tried to beautify human frailties, including old age. Read

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

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

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

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

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

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 Mendl

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

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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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