Tommy Steele
England
Born: 17 December 1936
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Pop/Rock
Styles: Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll/Roots, Early Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock
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You'd never know it to look at film of him today, but during the summer of 1956, Tommy Steele became England's first home-grown rock & roller. Or he wasn't a rock & roller at all. Some 43 years after he first charted a record, many pop music scholars still question whether Tommy Steele belongs on a list of rock & roll performers. But whatever he was, in 1956, England had never seen anything quite like him. He was born Tommy Hicks on December 17, 1936, in Bermondsey, South London, to a working-class family. In 1952, at age 15, he joined the merc...
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