| First Name |
Kenny
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| Last Name |
Everett
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| Full Name at Birth |
Maurice James Christopher Cole
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| Alternative Name |
Kenny Everett, Maurice James Christopher Cole, Maurice Cole
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| Birthday |
25th December, 1944
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| Birthplace |
Seaforth, Liverpool, England, UK
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| Died |
4th April, 1995
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| Place of Death |
London, England, UK
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| Cause of Death |
Aids (related complications)
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| Height |
5' 5" (165 cm)
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| Build |
Average
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| Eye Color |
Blue
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| Hair Color |
Brown - Light
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| Distinctive Feature |
Clean shaven in early years, but always bearded later on..., Ability to do a variety of voices..., Mad wide-eyed stare on and off stage..., His catchphrase "All done in the best possible taste''..., His characters Sid Snot, Cupid Stunt, Angry of Mayfair, Marcel Wave among others..., After his death, his entire collection of on-air recordings of his work (over 200 hours) were donated to the National Sound Archive..., Sacked from Radio Luxembourg after admitting he smoked marijuana..., Received the Gold Sony Radio Award in 1994 for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting..., Sacked from BBC Radio 1 for telling a joke about the Minister of Transport's wife's driving test, hinting that the driving instructor may have been bribed..., Member of The Conservative Party..., At one Conservative party conference, he spoke from the platform, imploring: "Let's bomb Russia!"..., Anarchic sense of humour, including caustic jokes aimed at Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher, despite being a Tory Party member..., Openly homosexual and a campaigner for gay rights..., Great friends with Freddie Mercury..., Friend of John Lennon since the early sixties..., Neologisms like ''perversitude'' and ''fleshy bummery''..., Sacked from BBC Radio 2 for telling anti Margaret Thatcher joke..., He was influential in making the song "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen a hit, which he played fourteen times over the space of one weekend during his time at Capital Radio, becoming a friend of Freddie Mercury afterwards..., His favorite piece of music was Symphonic Prelude by Giacomo Puccini..., He had a U.K. top ten hit single in 1983 with "Snot Rap", sung in the guise of one of his comedy show characters..., He attended a junior seminary at Stillington near York with an Italian missionary order, the Verona Fathers, where he was a choirboy..., He adopted the name "Everett" from American film comic Edward Everett Horton, a childhood hero...
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| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn
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| Sexuality |
Gay
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| Religion |
Roman Catholic
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
British
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| High School |
St Bede's Secondary Modern in Crosby
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| Occupation Text |
DJ, Comic, Writer
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| Occupation |
Comedian
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| Claim to Fame |
The Kenny Everett Television Show
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| Music Genre (Text) |
Character comedy, Surreal Comedy, TV Comedy Sketch Show, Outlandish comedy characters, Disc Jockey, Pirate Radio, Gay Rights, The Conservative Party, Choirboy, Character comedy,, surreal comedy, sketch
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| Year(s) Active |
1962–95, 1962–94, 1962–1994
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| Record Label |
Radio London (pirate radio station), Capital Radio, ITV, Radio Luxembourg (pirate radio station), BBC Radio 1, The National Sound Archive, The Conservative Party, BBC Radio 2, The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph.
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| Official Websites |
www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1039136/index.html, www.kennyeverett.co.uk/
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| Pets |
'Pussy Cat' (pet cat), John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, Michael Winner (film director), David Bowie, Mike Moran (co-writer of 'Snot Rap'), Lee Middleton (2 June 1966 - 1984), Edward Everett Horton (fan)
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| Favorite Bands |
The Beatles, Queen
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| Favorite Songs |
Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen, Symphonic Prelude, by Giacomo Puccini
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Maurice James Christopher Cole (25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995), better known as Kenny Everett, was a British comedian and radio disc jockey. After spells on pirate radio and Radio Luxembourg in the mid-1960s, he was one of the first DJs to join BBC radio's newly-created BBC Radio 1 in 1967. It was here he developed his trademark voices and surreal characters which he later adapted for television.
