Name - Rex Brough
Birthdate - 31/10/60
Birthplace - At home, Keresley, Coventry
Height - 5' 11"
Weight - 10 stone 7 pounds / 147 pounds / 67 Kilogrammes
Colour of eyes - Brown
Instruments played - Guitar, Bass Guitar, Double bass, 'Cello, Piano, Computer
Education - Boys Grammar school
Qualifications - None to speak of
Musical Training - Classical, Coventry Cathedral choir
Religion - None
Age entered showbusiness - 15, playing bass with Len Pepper's Meridians
Biggest break - Coming to London
Former occupations - Laboratory technician, Van driver, Recording engineer, Pop record producer
Hobbies - Cycling, Family tree, CD collecting
Favourite colour - Green
Favourite singers - Ronald Isley, Roger Daltrey, Gladys Knight
Favourite actors - Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau
Favourite foods - Soya products, Spinach, Battenberg cake
Favourite clothes - My cheap black suit, lycra underpants, M & S socks
Favourite drinks - It used to be Kronenbourg 1664, Tanglefoot bitter, Port - Now it's Ginger beer.
Favourite groups - Isley brothers, The Who
Favourite instrumentalists - Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield
Favourite composers - J. S. Bach, Mozart, Charles Ives
Favourite arranger - Wally Stott, H B Barnum, Burt Bacharach, George Martin
Favourite songwriters - HDH, Bacharach/David, Leiber/Stoller, Brill Building Crew, Brothers Gibb
Likes - Easy going people
Loves - Everyone in my family
Dislikes - Stuck up people
Hates - Cucumber, radish etc....
Personal ambition - To live a long time
Professional ambition - Reflexology, To make compilations on my own record label, to write a couple of books & to continue making radio programmes.
Tastes in music - Anything soulful. Also see Gargoyles section.....
Favourite Quote - “The golden rule is that there is no golden rule” George Bernard Shaw
Telephone: 020 7682 0338 (Leave a message if I'm not there)
Email: theperfumery@hotmail.com