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It’s a sad day for music industry and for Timperley. I’m very unhappy to tell our readers that Chris Sievey has died at the age of 54. Chris was best known as Frank Sidebottom, the papier mache be-headed comedian and musician who put Timperley on the map.
Originally finding fame as lead singer of the punk band The Freshies who had a hit with one of the longest song titles to make the charts (despite being forced to change it slightly)

Chris was the ultimate self-starter, pre-dating punk by forming his own record label, Razz, in 1974 and releasing the world’s first multimedia single when he released The Biz as a single and a Sinclair Spectrum game on tape

How could anyone not like a man who had the knack of releasing singles with titles such as ‘I Can’t Get “Bouncing Babies” by the Teardrop Explodes’ with a chrous of ‘Boing boing, bouncing babies’

He was a friend of the stars too

I met Chris numerous times around the time of the ‘Oh Blimey Big Band’ and he was a sweet, gentle guy who seemed to transform when he put on his alter ego’s oversized head. He was certainly unique and I, personally, will miss him a lot.