Tony Hawks

Antony Gordon Hawksworth, better known as Tony Hawks, is a British comedian and author. Born in Brighton in 1960, Hawks was educated at Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar School and Brighton College . He stated during an appearance on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue that he briefly attended the University of Manchester. Hawks first attempted to break into show business as a serious singer-songwriter, but it was with a novelty record that he had his first brush with fame. As leader of the trio Morris Minor and the Majors, he reached number 4 in the UK charts with the Beastie Boys parody, Stutter... Rap in 1988. It went on to sell 220,000 copies, and was number one in Australia. The follow-up, a pastiche of Stock Aitken Waterman called This Is the Chorus, fared less well. A TV series followed from this, Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors, written by and starring Hawks. In it the fictional bandleader attempted to maintain his pop career while running a garage. It ran for one series in 1989.
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