Early Life
Ronald Hazlehurst was born in Dukinfield, Cheshire in 1928, to a railway worker and piano teacher. Having attended Hyde County Grammar School for Boys, he left at the age of 14 and became a clerk for a cotton mill. From 1947 to 1949 he did his National Service as a bandsman in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards.
During his spare time, he played in a band, and soon became a professional musician earning £4 a week. The band appeared on the BBC Light Programme, but Hazlehurst left when he was refused a pay rise. Moving to Manchester, he became a freelance musician until he was offered a place on another band at a nightclub in London. Ronnie Hazlehurst worked at Granada for about a year in 1955 and, after he left there, worked on a market stall in Watford to make ends meet.
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