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| | Lisa Stansfield, Morrisey, The Smiths, Paul Young, Georgie Fame, The Stone Roses and other Manchester Pop and Rock ... |
 | | Her talent was evident from her earliest days and she won a Manchester Evening News Talent Contest at the age of 14, held at The Talk Of The Town club in Manchester city centre. |
 | | Born Clive Powell in Leigh, Greater Manchester, on 26th June 1943, Georgie Fame began playing the piano at an early age for various local groups, including The Dominoes (named after his hero, Fats Domino), before his family moved to London in 1959. |
 | | For most of the 1980s, Manchester, and much of the British popular music scene, was dominated by one group, The Smiths, acclaimed as the most important group in Britain in the 1980s. |
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