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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: People from Anderton, People from Chorley, People from Croston, John Foxx, Starsailor, Paul Mariner, Charles Lightoller, Derek Draper, Tom Smith, Thomas de Trafford, David Unsworth, C. D. Darlington, Graham Barrow, Simon Grand, Francis Birley, Bethany Black, Walter Berg, Michael Barnes, Dominic Merella, Joseph Gilgun, Norman Haworth, Phil Cool, Samuel Oldknow, Dave Spikey, James Walsh, Jason Queally, Steve Pemberton, Bill Beaumont, Thomas Rawlinson, Michael Jennings, Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 2nd Baronet, Tom Cahill, Henry Tate, Ken Morley, Loui Batley, Kevin Simm, Mick Moore, Mickey Walsh, Paul McKenna, Bert Fishwick, Jack Iddon, Lana Williams, Joseph Knight, Tommy Briercliffe, Simon Farnworth, John Rigby, Lora Fairclough, Paul Grayson, Wayne Gill, William Mariner, Charlie Ashcroft, Tom Mather, Arthur Masters, David Murray, Harry Davies, Tom Stephenson, Trefor Evans, George Rawstorne, Adrian Rigby, Teddy Hodgson, Suzanne Hall, Stan Howard, Sir John Wright, 1st Baronet, Leonard Fairclough, Michael Staziker. Excerpt: John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh) is an English singer, artist, photographer and teacher. He was the original lead singer of the band Ultravox before being replaced by Midge Ure, when he left to embark on a solo career in 1979. Primarily associated with electronic synthesiser music, he has also pursued a parallel career in graphic design and education. Foxx was born in Chorley, Lancashire. His father was a coal miner and pugilist, his mother a millworker. He attended St Mary's Primary and St Augustine's Secondary schools. During his youth in the 1960s he embraced the lifestyle of a mod and a hippy. He experimented with tape recorders and synthesisers while on a scholarship at the Royal College of Art in London. His first band, formed whilst at art college in Preston, was called Woolly Fish. Prior to 1973, he...
