A Collectable

Celebration of

Roger Mcgough

إحتفال

بحياة و أعمال

رودجر مكغوه

"We Shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young for it."

Roger McGough

«لم يجب علينا أن نتزوّج،صدقاً. لم يجب أن نتزوّج. صغيرين جداً للزواج.»

Inhabitants of Liverpool are referred to as

Liverpudlians but are also known as “Scousers”, in

reference to the local meal known as “scouse”, a form

of stew. The word scouse has also become synonymous

with the Liverpool accent and dialect. In 2007 the city

celebrated its 800th anniversary, and in 2008 it holds

the European Capital of Culture title together with

Stavanger, Norway.

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary.

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During the late 1960s the city became well-known for the

Liverpool poets, of whom Roger McGough and the late

Adrian Henri are among the best known. The anthology The Mersey

Sound, by Henri, McGough and Brian Patten, has sold over 500,000

copies since first being published in 1967.

In recent years The Dead Good Poets Society

and particularly poets like David Bateman and Jim

Bennett, both of whom at various times have been

called the best in Liverpool, have ensured that the

reputation of Liverpool based performance poetry has

been maintained.

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He was born on 9 November 1937 in Liverpool,

England. He was educated at St Mary’s College,

Crosby, Liverpool, and at Hull University. He taught at

St Kevin’s Comprehensive School, Kirby, and lectured

at Mabel Fletcher College in Liverpool and at the

Liverpool College of Art. He was a member of the

pop music/poetry group “ The Scaffold” between

1963 and 1973.

Award-winning poet, playwright, broadcaster and children’s author Roger McGough.

الشاعر الحائز على جوائز عدّة، و الكاتب المسرحي، و المذيع، و مؤلّف قصص

األطفال، رودجر مكغوه.

He made his name as one of

the “Liverpool Poets” with

Adrian Henri and Brian

Patten, included in The

Mersey Sound. A Fellow

of John Moores University in Liverpool, he won a Cholmondeley

Award in 1999 and was awarded an honorary MA from Nene College

of Further Education. He was Fellow of Poetry at the University of

Loughborough (1973-5), Honorary Professor at Thames Valley University

(1993) and is a member of the Executive Council of the Poetry Society.

He was awarded an OBE in 1997.

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He has twice won the Signal Poetry Award: first in 1984 with Sky in

the Pie, then again in 1999 for Bad, Bad Cats. He is also the author

of a number of plays, including All the Trimmings, first performed at

the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1980, and The Mouthtrap, which

he wrote with Brian Patten, produced at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982.

He wrote the lyrics for an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows

first staged in Washington, DC, in 1984, transferring to Broadway in 1995.

He has written for and presented programmes on BBC Radio including

‘Poetry Please’ and ‘Home Truths’. His film work includes Kurt,

Mungo, BP and Me (1984), for which he won a BAFTA award, and he

won the Royal Television Society Award for his science programme

The Elements (1993).

His most recent book of poetry is Everyday Eclipses (2002). His

Collected Poems, bringing together over forty years of McGough’s poetry,

was published in 2003, and his live poetry album, Lively, is now out on CD.

Roger McGough’s autobiography,

Said and Done,

was published in 2005

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The Scaffold performed a mixture of comic songs, comedy sketches

and the poetry of McGough, as evidenced on their 1968 live album, and

released a number of singles on Parlophone and EMI between 1966

and 1971, and a couple more on Warner Bros. thereafter.

The Scaffold achieved Top 10 success in the UK with:

“Thank U Very Much” (No. 4), composed by McGear;

“Lily the Pink” (# 1), based on a traditional song about Lydia Pinkham.

“Liverpool Lou” (# 7) (written by Dominic Behan), recorded during

the 1974 McGear sessions with Wings.

In addition to the hit singles, The Scaffold’s output included four albums,

The Scaffold Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall 1968 on Parlophone in

1968, “Lily the Pink” on Parlophone in 1969, “Fresh Liver” on

Island in 1973 and Sold Out on WB in 1975. In addition, a Scaffold greatest

hits album entitled Singles “As + Bs” was released on See For Miles

Records in 1982 and a second greatest hits collection “The Very Best

of Scaffold” in 2002. Two compilations of the band’s Parlophone tracks

have also been released.

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Jack Bruce, Elton John, Graham Nash

and Jimi Hendrix were among the

session musicians who performed

on The Scaffold’s early records (none

of the trio being musicians).

In 1970 The Scaffold appeared in a

children’s television series, “Score With The Scaffold”.

In early 1971 they provided some catchy tunes for inclusion in a television

publicity campaign heralding the introduction of decimal currency to the

UK. In this series of five-minute programmes, titled “Decimal Five”

and shown on BBC1, they sang such inspired lyrics as “Give more, get

change” and “Use your old coppers in sixpenny lots”.

In 1972 they made a ½ hour musical movie called “Plod” based on an

earlier stage production. The film was made on location in Liverpool and

included boys from the Liverpool Institute High School, earlier attended

by the McCartney brothers and Beatle George Harrison.

In 1973, The Scaffold transferred to Island Records and released one

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album, “Fresh Liver”, from which no singles were

released. The group then merged into the expanded

line-up of Grimms with the likes of Neil Innes, Andy

Roberts, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten.

After the 1974 success of “Liverpool Lou”,

recorded with Paul McCartney and Wings, The Scaffold

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reunited for their final album, Sold Out, on Warner Bros. Records. The

B-side of “Liverpool Lou”, “Ten Years After on Strawberry

Jam”, was an instrumental composed by Paul and Linda McCartney

and performed by Wings. However, after the Sold Out tour, The Scaffold

disbanded for keeps.

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O Lord, let me be a burden on my children

For long they’ve been a burden upon me.

May they fetch and carry, clean and scrub

And do so cheerfully.

Let them take it in turns at putting me up

Nice sunny rooms at the top of the stairs

With a walk-in bath and lift installed

At great expense.....Theirs.

Insurance against the body-blows of time

Isn’t that what having children’s all about?

To bring them up knowing that they owe you

And can’t contract out?

What is money for but to spend on their schooling?

Designer clothes, mindless hobbies, usual stuff.

Then as soon as they’re earning, off they go

Well, enough’s enough.

It’s been a blessing watching them develop

The parental pride we felt as each one grew.

But Lord, let me be a burden on my children

And on my children’s children too.

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not a clean and inbetween

the sheets holywater death

not a famous-last-words

peaceful out of breath death

When I'm 73

and in constant good tumour

may I be mown down at dawn

by a bright red sports car

on my way home

from an allnight party

Or when I'm 91

with silver hair

and sitting in a barber's chair

may rival gangsters

with hamfisted tommyguns burst in

and give me a short back and insides

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Or when I'm 104

and banned from the Cavern

may my mistress

catching me in bed with her daughter

and fearing for her son

cut me up into little pieces

and throw away every piece but one

Let me die a youngman's death

not a free from sin tiptoe in

candle wax and waning death

not a curtains drawn by angels borne

'what a nice way to go' death

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Everyday,

I think about dying.

About disease, starvation,

violence, terrorism, war,

the end of the world.

It helps keep my mind off things

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