David Bowie and his gigs with the Manish Boys and Level Three in Maidstone and other parts of Kent
Published: 06:00, 10 January 2021
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the death of David Bowie - the singer/songwriter, glam rock star and actor who died on January 10, 2016, from liver cancer.
But although his name is known across the Western world as an icon of pop fashion, few know of the famous musician s links to Kent.
David Bowie turns radio DJ for a Star Special broadcast in May 1979. Image BBC
David Robert Jones was born illegitimately in Brixton. His father, a former Royal Fusilier soldier named John Jones, was still married to his first wife Hilda at the time that Bowie s mother Peggy gave birth to him in 1947. Jones senior later divorced Hilda and married Peggy (Margaret), who had herself been born in Folkestone.
Chad Stuart, pop star with the 1960s British singing duo Chad & Jeremy, dies at 79
Matt Schudel, The Washington Post
Dec. 23, 2020
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Chad Stuart, half of the popular singing duo Chad & Jeremy, which had seven Top 40 hits during pop music s British Invasion of the mid-1960s with gentle, wistful love songs, died Dec. 20 at his home in Hailey, Idaho. He was 79.
He had pneumonia following an accidental fall, said his daughter, Beth Stuart.
Stuart was studying at a London drama school in 1960 when he met a fellow student, Jeremy Clyde. Stuart, whose given name was David Stuart Chadwick, was more interested in music than acting, and he and Clyde began to perform together in clubs and coffeehouses.