Joe Brown, MBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (born Joseph Roger Brown, 13 May 1941, Swarby

Aswarby and Swarby

Aswarby and Swarby is a civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 111. The parish consists of Aswarby and Swarby....

, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

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) is an English

English people

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 entertainer.

He has worked as a rock and roll

Rock and roll

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 singer and guitarist

Guitarist

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 for more than five decades. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s and a UK recording star in the early 1960s. He has made six film

Film

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s, presented specialist radio

Radio station

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 series for BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

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, appeared on the West End stage alongside Dame Anna Neagle and has written an autobiography

Autobiography

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