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THE stars who turned out for Glasgow-born musician Lonnie Donegan’s memorial service included Brian May, Mark Knopfler and Bill Wyman.
1 He was the king of skiffle, the founding father of British pop and nothing short of a musical legend. Bridgeton-born Lonnie Donegan was the son of an Irish mother and a Scottish father,who was a violinist who once played with the Scottish National Orchestra, and later joined the Merchant Navy. In 1933, the family moved to London, where the teenage Donegan learned to play the guitar and the banjo, and formed the Anthony Donegan - later Tony Donegan - Jazz Band, which he financed through part-time delivery work for a photographer. 2 Donegan changed his name to Lonnie after his idol, the A...