Stevie Smith, poet. Born in Hull (I think there's a blue plaque on the house - either Alliance or De la Pole Ave) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Smith
Trevor Key, whose parents had a shop on De Grey Street (his dad was called Ted - the name adopted by 'Ted' Key of the Gargoyles/Housemartins) designed the cover of Tubular bells, the recording which really kicked off the Virgin business. Album artwork[edit] please log in to view this image Tubular Bells picture disc. The cover design was by Trevor Key of Cooke Key Associates (with Brian Cooke), who went on to create the covers of many Oldfield albums. The triangular bell on the album cover was inspired by a tubular bell he had dented while playing.[18] The "bent bell" image on the cover is also associated with Oldfield, even being used for the logo of his personal music company, Oldfield Music Ltd. The image was also the main focus for the cover art of the successive Tubular Bells albums. Tubular Bells has also been issued as a vinyl picture disc, showing the bent bell on a skyscape. The sleeve notes include a couple of tongue-in-cheek warnings: "In Glorious Stereophonic Sound – Can also be played on mono-equipment at a pinch" and "This stereo record cannot be played on old tin boxes no matter what they are fitted with. If you are in possession of such equipment please hand it into the nearest police station". The album cover for Tubular Bells was among the ten chosen by the UK's Royal Mail for a set of "Classic Album Cover" postage stamps issued on 7 January 2010.[19][20][21]
No problem TC. I agree it is very unusual for Hull to be featured. Jeopardy is one of the (probably the only one) US TV programs we watch because it has some degree of intelligence. Usually we are watching PBS.
Dunno, Chazz. 'Ted' Key lives/lived in the area of the shop, and that shop had E.H.Key lettered across the front. (Maybe the two sets of Keys were related?)
Rod Temperton and he also lived in Hull for a while in a flat above the shop next door to Stan Leeman's on Anlaby Road. Should be a blue plaque outside. Another famous Hullite Don Sudderby the man who produced Lorenzo's Oil.
I shouldn't think he'd be very keen on having his name on a blue plaque just yet, you have to be dead twenty years to qualify.
