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I had the great pleasure of booking some great artists into Manchester City Social Club via the ex-great Man City player and manager of the social club, Roy Clarke, who passed away not so long ago.
Some of the names I booked there were Bob Monkhouse (quite a lot), Ken Dodd, The Drifters with Johnny Moore and Bill Fredericks, Steve Coogan, Bernard Manning, Roy Walker, The Black Abbotts, Roy Chubby Brown, Malcolm Roberts, Les Dawson, Frank Ifield, Little 'n Large.
Some of the supporting acts who worked there are now major acts themselves - Jimmy Cricket, Stu Frances, Duncan Novelle, Steve Coogan, Jane McDonald. |
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There must be thousands of name acts that have worked this great venue. The agent that booked the artists before me who is very very succsesful and a very nice guy is Stuart Littlewood who must have booked bigger names than I had booked.
The Man City Social Club sad to say is no longer there because of the football club move to its new stadium
The Majestic was, as I remember, an old picture house in Liverpool Rd, Patricroft, Eccles and the gentlemen who used to own it were the famous Joe Pullen and Fred Talbot, who turned it into the Majestic Ballroom and had some very famous people there.
I remember this gave me the incentive to get involvoled with the music business. Famous names included Herman's Hermits, Eden Kane, Emile Ford and the Checkmates, Jimmy Crawford, Jonnie Peters and the Crestas and many many more. The venue then changed to one of the greatest cabaret venus in Britain and the new name - The Talk of the North
There where many venues/bookings that groups played such as Fagins, Talk of the North, Poco Poco (Stockport), Mr Smiths, Golden Garter, Garrick Club (Leigh), Cromford club, Twisted Wheel, Eccles Youth Club, Shawe Hall (Flixton), Flixton Institute, Cumberland Club (Salford) to name but a few that I worked with our group.
I will add some more in the near future.
Roy Mozley
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