A lady came up to me in Tesco last year and said, “Excuse me, but didn’t you used to be Roger McGough?”
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Roger McGough
b. 1938
Arts and letters
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Born in Liverpool, Roger McGough, 88, worked as a teacher before forming the Scaffold with John Gorman and Mike McGear in the 1960s; they performed poetry, sketches and comic songs and had a No 1 hit with Lily the Pink. McGough hosts Radio 4’s Poetry Please and has published more than 100 poetry books for adults and children, including Collected Poems 1959-2024. He has four children and lives in London with his second wife.
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