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Author:	Ray O'Brien
Title:	Street Stars
Publisher:	Trinity Mirror North West And North Wales
Country:	UK
Date:	6 Oct 2008
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Biography
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Profiles of 80 Merseyside entertainers form Ken Dodd to Daniel Craig and The Beatles.

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JPGR&B SUBS 26th Jan 2022		Review Annotation: In this volume O'Brien mixes a short discussion of the original dwellings once occupied by a selection of Liverpool's most successful entertainment and media stars with equally short pen pictures of the personalities - including members of the Beatles. A good deal of the information within was collated from past editions of Kelly's (Gores) Directory which, beginning in the late-I8th century, annually listed households and businesses for every property in Liverpool. O'Brien is a good researcher and coupled with the photographic archives from the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo (the publisher of this volume being the papers' parent company Trinity Mirror), we have here an interesting volume. The entries are a little too short, however, and at times one is left rather wanting or in a state of confusion. For example, more information concerning black Liverpudlian vocalist Lita Roza (the first Liverpudlian to have a number one hit single in Britain) is required, while Rex Harrison's information is incomplete: the Harrison family were indeed from Huyton, but there was also a family home in Everton, on Walton Road (now occupied by a hairdressers and the intrepid Elvis expert Mick O'Toole!). Curiously, the artists are not listed alphabetically - which seems very odd - so the work is far from comprehensive as a research tool. Nevertheless it is a worthy addition, which brings together Liverpool's interesting cultural geography and its renowned production line of British entertainment personalities. It has not ostensibly been written for the Beatles marketplace and Beatles fans might find it a little 'parochial' for their tastes; Spencer Leigh provides a foreword. Michael Brocken Source: The Beatles Bibliography: A New Guide To The Literature - Michael Brocken and Melissa Davis (The Beatle Works Ltd., 2012), with acknowledgement, and used here with permission from the authors for educational and historical purposes only. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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