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MIKE BERRY

'A Tribute to Buddy Holly', his first hit and now a pop classic established him as the British Buddy Holly. In fact it’s Mike that long time friend Paul McCartney invites every year to perform at his Buddy Holly Birthday Tribute.  It was 1961 when Mike first met The Beatles when he was playing The Cavern with The Outlaws. They met again on tour and on the TV show Thank Your Lucky Stars  where John Lennon offered to write Mike a song, but being pre Lennon and McCartney’s writing fame, he regrettably never followed it up!

More hits followed with 'Don’t You Think It’s Time,' ' My Little Baby' and the self-penned 'On My Mind'.  In the seventies, after a brief stint in the motor racing industry, Mike scored a No. 1 with a re-recording of ‘Tribute’ establishing him in Europe. Alongside his singing, Mike became a photographic model featuring in over 50 television commercials. Through this, Mike was offered a role in the children’s show Worzel Gummidge with Jon Pertwee running from 1979-1981.

In 1980 Mike had his biggest hit with ‘The Sunshine of Your Smile’ earning him a silver disc. No sooner had Worzel Gummidge ended than Mike was offered his next role; Bert Spooner in Are You Being Served? He stayed until the show ended in 1985. Acting continued with plays, farces and pantomimes before starring in the rock n roll musicals Great Balls of Fire and Tutti Frutti.

These rekindled his love for music and so went on the road with his newly formed Outlaws. Highlights include being Buddy Holly for The Crickets at an Eddie Cochran memorial concert and being honoured with a Gold Badge award for achievements in music. In 2004 Mike fulfilled a life long ambition and made an album (‘About Time Too’) with Buddy Holly’s original Crickets, and in 2006 Mike headlined The Clovis Music Festival in the states celebrating the music of Holly. Last Christmas (2007), Mike released a self-penned single (Hi There Darlin’! Merry Christmas) under his character name from Are You Being Served? –Bert Spooner along with Chanson D’amour – the song which Mike performed in the very last episode and one AYBS fans have asked Mike to put onto disc. Mike continues to perform and can be found writing and recording music in his own studio (which he has built himself!)

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