Another in my Famous Strangers project of people who are not the famous person but share the name.
I was moonlighting at a polling station on the day of the vote for the West Midlands Mayor my job was to tick off the people from a list when they gave me their name and address and David McWilliams arrived I remembered a song that was heavily promoted on Radio Caroline in the 60s called “The Days Of Pearly Spencer “sung by David McWilliams.
The song was never played on BBC Radio One because of its connection with the pirate station Caroline and didn’t chart here but sold a million copies worldwide reaching number one across Europe.
David came in during a quiet period of polling so I was able to have a chat but I missed out on Huey Lewis who came along at a peak time and I didn’t even get chance to arrange a shoot at a later date
When I was photographing people for the 100 Strangers project I found some of my models had famous names: Richard Burton, Paul Newman etc and I remembered one of my lecturers at Uni introduced himself as The Real Richard Burton the other is an imposter because Richard Burton the actor’s real name was Jenkins.
https://youtu.be/4VDS8uArR0A David McWilliams - Days Of Pearly Spencer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McWilliams_(musician) Wikipedia David McWilliams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline The Story Of Radio Caroline
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