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Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Errol BROWN (1943-2015)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Errol Brown, singer and songwriter, was surprised – on his birthday - by Michael Aspel during a personal appearance at the HMV store on London's Oxford Street.
Errol was born in Kingston, Jamaica, but moved to the UK when he was twelve to join his mother, who had relocated three years earlier. After studying business studies at Ealing College and working as a clerical officer in HM Treasury, he broke into the music business in 1969 with a version of John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance recorded with a band called The Hot Chocolate Band.
Renamed Hot Chocolate, the band was signed up by producer Mickie Most in 1970. With Errol as the lead singer, they released their first single, Love is Life, later that year, which reached number six in the charts. The band had at least one hit every year between 1970 and 1984, making them the only group in the UK to have a hit for 15 consecutive years.
"I don't know how you got this together!"
programme details...
- Edition No: 986
- Subject No: 961
- Broadcast date: Mon 24 Nov 1997
- Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
- Recorded: Wed 12 Nov 1997
- Venue: unknown
- Series: 38
- Edition: 13
- Code name: Monty
on the guest list...
- Joyce - aunt
- Lynne - aunt
- Ginette - wife
- Colette - daughter
- Leonie - daughter
- Chris Tarrant
- Bill Wyman
- Mary - aunt
- Valerie Murray
- Mavis Smith
- David Jensen
- Babs Powell
- Dee Dee Wilde
- Ruth Pearson
- Louise Dobson
- Phil Tibber
- Daphne Marcel
- Tamra Ferguson
- Mike Batt
- Waveney Lloyd
- Mark Pitman
- Jenny Pitman
- Michael Brandon
- Dolores - aunt Filmed tributes:
- Larry Ferguson
- Clive Lloyd
- Alex Ferguson
- Glynis Barber
- Dennis Waterman
related appearances...
- Mickie Most - Dec 1981
- Trevor McDonald - Jan 1990
- Jackie Collins - Mar 1993
production team...
- Researcher: Ruth Malone
- Writer: Joe Steeples
- Directors: John Gorman, Peter Wisdom
- Associate Producer: Liz Rawlings
- Executive Producer: John Longley
- Series Producer: Jack Crawshaw
- Producer: Sue Green
- names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
Photographs and screenshots of Errol Brown This Is Your Life
Series 38 subjects
Jeremy Guscott | Magnus Magnusson | Maureen Rees | Russ Abbot | Sally Gunnell | Graham Cole | James HatfieldCarol Vorderman | Trevor Baylis | Bryan Mosley | Murray Walker | Cheryl Baker | Errol Brown | Peter Snow
Nadim Sawalha | Clive Hornby | Trevor Bannister | Mary Ward | Brian Murphy | Robert Winston
Duncan Goodhew | Julia Watson | Anne Robinson | Bill Giles | Tim Healy | Raymond Baxter