Karen is saddened to hear of the death of Chris Sievey today, AKA Frank Sidebottom.
Karen knew Chris from her days as an audience member of the Oxford Road Show and later with her involvement at Radio HBS (Hospital Radio at North Manchester General). She persuaded both the Freshies and Graham Fellows (Jilted John, now John Shuttleworth) to swap the BBC studios for the hospital ones, if only for an afternoon.
Here are pictures of a youthful Karen with Frank and Chris in the radio studios in 1985.
They charted with this one and later had to replace “Virgin” with “a certain Manchester superstore” to keep Beardy happy.
R.I.P. Chris, you were one of Karen’s heroes a quarter of a Century ago…
