Gareth Malone looks back: ‘After the Christmas No 1, I was meeting Simon Cowell, having tea with Gary Barlow and dinner with Andrew Lloyd Webber’
The choir leader and presenter on not fitting in at his all-boys grammar, how synthesisers changed everything, and his ‘dithering’ start on TV Born in…
According to The Guardian, the choir leader and presenter on not fitting in at his all-boys grammar, how synthesisers changed everything, and his ‘dithering’ start on TV Born in London in 1975, Gareth Malone is a choirmaster and broadcaster.
He has since created choirs with Leicester schoolboys, Aylesbury prisoners, as well as the Military Wives, which produced the No 1 single, Wherever You Are. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
This lifestyle story centres on the United Kingdom. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include Gareth Malone, the Christmas No and Simon Cowell.
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