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George's eccentricity and sense of fun precedes him through life.

To start at the beginning, George East was born on Hayling Island but grew up in Portsmouth where his mother ran a boarding house for fairground workers, circus entertainers and other interesting itinerants.

He left school intending to become a rock god, and his band met with early and moderate success when they performed as a support act to Billy Fury, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.


After coming second to a 14-year-old trumpeter playing selections From South Pacific in the Butlin's All-England Search for A Star, The Rockin' Hot Rods struggled on until a short-circuit in George's home-made guitar resulted in a catastrophic loss of all the group's equipment when the venue

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Never had it So Good

Hello,

I have recently completed a trilogy of my memoirs of growing up in the seaside town of Portsmouth/Southsea shortly after the second world war. 'Pompey Lad' They were, as the details for the books show, very different times from now. In fact a lot of young people will probably think, as the quote goes that ‘the (my) past is a foreign country’. Or rather, ‘another planet’

The books set out to

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