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The list of Geordie singers is a list of singers who are Geordies. Geordie is the regional nickname given to people from the Tyneside region of North East England. Geordie is also the name given to the dialect of English that they speak. Geordie singers are singers who are from the Tyneside region of England or singers who speak in the Geordie ...
John Atkinson - The subject of a song, he was from Murton near Appleby and was the servant of Thomas Howson, a miller. He courted the Miller's sister, and at the same time, courted and wed another, encouraged by a "friend" Thomas Skelton, who actually married them to save the fees.
Mark Knopfler guitarist, singer, and founder member of Dire Straits. Although born in Glasgow, his family moved to Northumberland when he was young and he attended school in Newcastle. Matthew Healy of the alternative rock band the 1975. Although born in London, was brought up in Prudhoe; Maxïmo Park; The Motorettes; Nadine Shah
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John Balmbra - Entrepreneur, owner of the famous Music Hall; Sir David Brewster - subject of a song and a scientist/engineer and inventor of the Kaleidoscope c1820. The song "The Pitman's Skellyscope" written by William Mitford appears in a great many chapbooks, possibly due to its novelty value, including on page 147 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
Geordie Walker, the Killing Joke guitarist and co-founder admired by everyone from Jimmy Page to Dave Grohl, has died aged 64. News of Walker’s death was confirmed by the band in a statement ...
After AC/DC's lead singer Bon Scott died in February 1980, AC/DC chose Brian Johnson (whose vocal talent had previously been praised by Scott) to take over lead vocal duties. [1] Johnson traveled with the band and producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange to Compass Point Studios in The Bahamas to write and record the follow-up to their 1979 album ...
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