Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1937
- Works
- 34
Top works
- The Mersey sound
- I never liked Wednesdays
- The Oxford ABC picture dictionary
- Strictly private
- Strictly private
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1937-11-09
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 775
- Total plays
- 2,569
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Roger McGough, born November 9th 1937, is a Liverpudlian poet who first gained recognition in the sixties as part of the "Mersey Sound" group of poets. He formed Scaffold with Mike McGear and John Gorman, who had a number one hit in 1968 with Lily The Pink. He was also involved in the film Yellow Submarine, and in the Beatles spoof, All You Need Is Cash, documenting the life of imaginary band The Rutles. In 1978 Roger released a musical version of his popular 1967 book, Summer With Monika. <a h
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Quotes
- “There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?”
- “Wasn't a bad party reallyExcept for the people”
- “The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.”
- “The general at the radar screenhe should have got the sackBut that wouldn't bringThree thousand million, seven hundred, and sixty-eight people back,Would it?”
- “When the busstopped suddenly to avoiddamaging a mother and child in the road, theyounglady in the greenhat sitting oppositewas thrown across me, and not being one tomiss an opportunity i started to makelove”
- “… i stood up and said it was a pity that the world didn't nearlyend every lunchtime and that we could alwayspretend. …”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roger
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Litherland
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Official website
- www.rogermcgough.org.uk
- Image
- Roger McGough.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- date of birth
- 1937-11-09
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- P12749
- Dinopium
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