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Rob Fennah

Writer/Producer Biographies

Born September 1958, Rob Fennah joined his first band, Buster, in 1974. Two years
later the group signed to RCA Records and had numerous hits in Japan, Europe and
Australia. By the age of 18, Rob had written his first hit and received a gold album
and a number of best-seller awards. He has performed at some of the world’s most
prestigious venues including: The Sydney Opera House, Australia and The Budo-
kan, Tokyo.

In 2014, The British Embassy in Tokyo published a list of the most successful top
25 UK bands in Japan since the Beatles. Rob’s band, Buster, was one of them. In
1984 Rob teamed up with his brother Alan and formed a new band, Alternative Ra-
dio. They were the first artists to sign to EMI’s re-launched Parlophone record label
(made famous by The Beatles).

Rob set up his own production company, Pulse Records Ltd, in 1992 and a meet-
ing later that year with author Helen Forrester, resulted in Rob’s adaptation of her
most famous work, Twopence To Cross The Mersey. As a musical it grossed over 2
million at the Liverpool Empire Theatre and the recent smash-hit stage-play version
has been touring the UK.

Rob’s new stage play, Lennon’s Banjo, tells the story of a Beatles fan who unearths
a clue to solving the greatest mystery in rock history - the whereabouts of John
Lennon’s first musical instrument which has been missing for 60 years. The play is
adapted from the novel ‘Julia’s Banjo’ by Rob Fennah & Co-Author Helen A Jones.

Rob is currently writing the stage sequel to Twopence To Cross The Mersey. Enti-
tled, By The Waters Of Liverpool it will premiere at the Liverpool Empire Theatre
in October 2018.

www.lennonsbanjo.com
www.twopencetocrossthemersey.com
www.bythewatersofliverpool.com
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