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Roger Greenaway

London, 5th January 1972 Roger Greenaway Born Roger John Reginald Greenaway, 23 August 1938, Bristol, UK Bands: The Kestrels (1956 - 1965) One And One (1964) David And Jonathan (1965 - 1968) Brotherhood Of Man (Autumn 1969 - mid 1971) White Plains (1970 - 1974) The Naked Truth (Jan/Feb 1970) The Pipkins (Feb/March 1970 - Oct 1971, early 1975) Currant Kraze (March/April 1970) Campus Kazoo (Nov 1970) Driftwood (1972) Roger Greenaway [Solo] (1972) The Nashville Soul Orchestra (1976, 1979) Excelsus (1981/1982) [Songwriter] (1964 - Present] The Kestrels  (1956 to 1965) The Kestrels (originally called The Hi-Fi's, then The Beltones) were a harmony group formed in Bristol around 1956. Roger Greenaway, Tony Burrows, and Roger Maggs all met while working at the Bristol-based paper firm E.S.& A Robinson. They had left school at the age of sixteen and secured jobs as trainee reps, often working in the company's postal department. Acco