Tony Mortimer
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Anthony Michael Mortimer is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. He is a former member of the boy band East 17, who were originally active from 1991 to 1997 and sold more than 18 million
Mortimer performing with East 17 during a promotional tour in Cologne, Germany in 2012
Kray twins
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Ronald Kray and Reginald Kray were English identical twin brothers from Haggerston, East London, who were heavily involved in organised crime from the late 1950s until their arrest in 1968.
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…inspired by the death of his brother, Ollie, by suicide. In October 2000, Mortimer was chosen as one of four pall bearers at the funeral of gangster Reggie Kray. Mortimer once collaborated with Kray when he got JJ Gilmour to record a poem Kray had written while in prison. The song has never been released, but…
Reggie (left) and Ronnie Kray, photographed by David Bailey in 1965
The Blind Beggar pub in 2005
Photograph of Reginald Kray (second from left) taken in the months leading up to his trial in 1968. The evidence from this file and others resulted in him and his brother Ronald being sentenced to life imprisonment.
Ronnie and Reggie Kray's grave, Chingford