1. Guy Edward John Patrick Garvey was born on 6 March 1974 and is an English musician, singer, songwriter and radio presenter.
23 Facts About Guy Garvey
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Guy Garvey is the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Elbow.
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Guy Garvey has a weekly show on BBC Radio 6 Music titled Guy Garvey's Finest Hour.
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Guy Garvey told The Guardian in 2015 that he was named Guy after another Catholic, Guy Fawkes.
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Guy Garvey told them he was bullied at school, due to his ears, which he had pinned back at the age of 12.
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Guy Garvey's parents separated when he was aged 12, and they had divorced by the time he was 13.
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Guy Garvey's mother was a police officer who went back to university and became a psychologist.
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Guy Garvey has five older sisters: Gina, Louise, Sam, Karen, and Becky.
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Guy Garvey serves as the lyricist of Elbow, and has been widely praised for his songwriting throughout his career.
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Guy Garvey was awarded a lifetime achievement honour by the Radio Academy in 2014.
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Amongst other work, Guy Garvey produced and recorded the I Am Kloot album Natural History.
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Guy Garvey is a member of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
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Guy Garvey has been a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music since 2007 and previously presented a show on Sunday evenings on XFM.
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Guy Garvey had a monthly column in the now-defunct listings magazine City Life and is a patron of the Mines Advisory Group, the Manchester-based charity responsible for clearing war zones of mines and munitions worldwide.
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Guy Garvey's selected best disc was, Talk Talk's New Grass, Laughing Stock.
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In 2015, Guy Garvey presented Music Box, an iPlayer-exclusive series covering emerging and established bands.
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Guy Garvey has read several children's stories for the CBeebies "Bedtime Stories" programme on the BBC.
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In 2015, Guy Garvey announced that he would be releasing his first solo studio album while continuing his duties as Elbow's lead songwriter.
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On 27 October 2015 Guy Garvey appeared on BBC Two's Later.
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In September 2018, Guy Garvey appeared in the ITV television series The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, as the bar singer in the Episode "Fog of War".
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In January 2024, Elbow performed on The Graham Norton Show and afterwards Guy Garvey joined Norton's guests to promote Elbow's tenth studio album, Audio Vertigo which was released on the 22 March.
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Guy Garvey began dating DJ Edith Bowman in 2004, later he had a long-term relationship with writer Emma Jane Unsworth.
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Guy Garvey started dating actress Rachael Stirling the daughter of Dame Diana Rigg in 2015 and the couple were married in June 2016 at Manchester Town Hall.