This acclaimed Glaswegian songwriter and impresario is best known for having written Congratulations and Puppet On A String. A resident of Belgravia, Bill Martin has worked with everyone from Billy Connolly to Van Morrison, has been presented with three Ivor Novello Awards and at one time owned Kenwood, the former home of John Lennon. He and his charming wife Jan are often to be found dining at Motcombs with their great friends Philip and Rosalie Lawless.
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April Ashley MBE (born Toni Jamieson)
This Liverpudlian sex-swap pioneer was the first British person to be outed as a transsexual in 1961. Ashley endured electric shock treatment and painful surgery but this didn’t stop her becoming a successful fashion model who appeared in such titles as Vogue. A marriage to the Hon. Arthur Corbett was brief but alleged affairs with […]
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He really is a super chap and with a great sense of humour.
Memsaab and I met him at Colbert,some months ago.
We were sitting next to him and his doctor and we spent an hour and a half having the greatest craic.
I don’t think it polite to describe your wife as a Swedish car
What a sweet video clip. I love Pipper On A String.
For goodness sake concentrate….he didn’t write ‘Pipper on a string’. What is a pipper, anyway?