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Born on 7th January at the end of World War 2 and brought up in Liverpool, Mike McCartney was educated at the Liverpool Institute High School for boys.
He tried to get into next doors art college but lack of GCE’s meant that he ended up a lady’s hairdresser.
Mike mcgear biography
From here he entered ‘show biz’ in the Liverpool One Fat Lady None Electric Show, which eventually became Scaffold.
Because of the sheer enormity of Beatlemania, Mike, not wanting to appear to be cashing in, changed his name to McGear.
He was an integral part of the 60’s Merseybeat era but Scaffold were mainly a theatre, university, satirical comedy act. In , Mike got them into the pop world by writing their first top five single ‘Thank U Very Much’ incidentally it became the Queen Mother’s and Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s favourite record.
In , their huge hit Lily the Pink reached the top of the charts (here and abroad) and stayed number one for four weeks.
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