English drummer, Charlie Watts, was best known as a member of the band Rolling Stones. He was associated with the group for almost 60 years. He began his career as a graphic designer for an advertising company and played with bands in his leisure time. He eventually started drumming full time with Rolling Stones.
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Legendary Scottish singer-songwriter, bassist, and composer Jack Bruce gained international fame with the British rock band Cream and released iconic tracks such as I Feel Free. He also performed as part of the jazz fusion group the Tony Williams Lifetime. In 2006, he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
![Gary Kemp Gary Kemp](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/gary-kemp-10996-1.jpg)
![Martin Kemp Martin Kemp](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/martin-kemp-16208-1.jpg)
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Grammy Award-winning legendary 20th-century violinist Yehudi Menuhin was born to Lithuanian Jews in the US. Starting his training in the violin at age 4, he later studied music in Paris. He also experimented with fusion, collaborating with jazz and Indian classical musicians. He later launched the Yehudi Menuhin School.
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![Georgie Fame Georgie Fame](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/georgie-fame-12163-1.jpg)
Georgie Fame is an English jazz and R&B musician. Fame, who started his career in the 1960s, is still going strong and often works with contemporaries like Bill Wyman, Van Morrison, and Alan Price. He is perhaps best known for his association with the British rhythm and blues group, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.
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Best known for his bestselling 1962 instrumental hit Stranger on the Shore, British clarinettist Acker Bilk was loved by his fans for his stage presence. Though he focused more on football and boxing in childhood, he was pushed by his parents to learn the piano and later switched to the clarinet.
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![Julie Driscoll Julie Driscoll](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/julie-driscoll-20162-1.jpg)
Julie Driscoll is an English actress and singer best known for her '60s version of Rick Danko and Bob Dylan's This Wheel's on Fire. Driscoll's version of the song became the unofficial anthem of the psychedelic subculture era in British rock music.
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George Melly was an English blues and jazz singer, critic, lecturer, and writer. Melly worked for The Observer from 1965 to 1973 where he was a television and film critic. George Melly was also interested in surrealist art and often emphasized surrealism while delivering his lectures on art history.
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Coleridge Goode was a Jamaican-born British jazz bassist best remembered for his collaboration with jazz musician and composer Joe Harriott. Goode is often counted among the finest jazz bassists to have worked in Europe. In 2011, Coleridge Goode was honoured at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards with the prestigious Services to Jazz Award.