Jet Harris
Musician. Born Terence Harris in Kingsbury. He played with several groups before joining Cliff Richard's backing group The Drifters. At his suggestion they changed their name to The Shadows. He and...
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George Harrison
Musician and songwriter. Born Liverpool.  One of the four Beatles.  Died Los Angeles.
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Eddie Harvey
Pianist and trombonist. Born Edward Thomas Harvey in Blackpool. At the age of 16 he joined George Webb's Dixielanders jazz band. Following WW2Â he performed with a number of bands, including John Da...
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Lilian Harvey
Film actor and singer. Born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape in Hornsey. Her father, a German businessman moved the family to Magdeburg. She studied at the dance and voice school of the Berlin Opera, taki...
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Joseph Haydn
Composer of the Classical period - prominent and prolific.  Born Austria as Franz Joseph Haydn.  Aged 6 he was sent away to train as a musician. Worked primarily for the wealthy Esterházy family.  ...
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Haydn Society of Great Britain
The group's website.
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Tubby Hayes
Tenor-saxophonist. Born Edward Brian Hayes at the Royal Free Hospital.In 1935, At the age of sixteen he joined Kenny Baker's sextet, and later played for many of the big-band leaders of the day. In...
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Revd. Thomas Helmore
Choir-master and hymn-writer. Born Kidderminster. Died at home in Pimlico.
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Russell Henderson
Musician. Born Russell Audley Ferdinand Henderson in Belmont, Trinidad. He came to Britain in 1951, and is widely recognised as one of the founding figures of the Notting Hill Carnival. His band ha...
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