After the great successes of 2012, you may be looking for further achievements by British people. I have one that may surprise you.

Marian Turner was born in 1918. This year she will be 95. A talented pianist, she studied at London’s Guildhall School of Music. A career as a classical musician seemed inevitable, but she had other ideas. Fascinated by the popular music and jazz of the 1930s, she began to appear in theatres and music halls. Sometimes she appeared in a three or four piano act with Billy Mayerl, one of the great popular pianists of the day. She adopted the stage name “Marion Page”.
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