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Chris 1
[© 2VISTA Frank Wabaseck]
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Chris 2
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Chris 3
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All press photos are available for editorial purposes and are free of charge. Please quote the following reference: CHRIS NORMAN. If the photos are used in the internet, please link to http://www.chris-norman.co.uk. Please contact Ina D. Keilitz, if the usage of the photos is non-editorial.
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Chris Norman comes from a show business family going back two generations.
His Grandparents toured their own concert party around England during the First World War and their daughter Pat (Chris’s mother) joined a dance troupe when she left school. Pip Norman, (Chris’s Dad) was part of a dancing/comedy act called ‘The Four Jokers’ and worked all over Europe in the 1930s/40s and had a British Royal Variety Performance to their credit.
Chris was born in Redcar, Yorkshire, on 25th October 1950, his parents didn't intend that he should pursue a stage career, but when he was just 3 years old, he decided to walk on stage and join the finale line up for the show in which his parents were appearing.
He got his first guitar at the age of seven and his early musical influences were Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly and Lonnie Donegan. Later the 60’s beat groups, in particular The Beatles, and the folk singer Bob Dylan, were a huge influence on Chris.
Approaching his twelfth birthday, Chris started at St. Bede’s Grammar School , Bradford where he met Alan Silson and Terry Uttley the future members of Smokie...
> download Biography [.pdf |13KB]
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