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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Retford, People From Worksop, Donald Pleasence, Bruce Dickinson, Graham Taylor, Lee Westwood, George F. Hopkinson, Liam Lawrence, John Parr, Mick Jones, Ian Bennett, Basil Boothroyd, Darren Ward, Sarah-Jane Honeywell, Derek Randall, Kevan Jones, Rosalind Plowright, John Cottam, Derek Simpson, Ted Alletson, Catherine Gore, Gary Bellamy, John Taylor, Danny Thomas, Philip Jackson, Edmund Eyre, Fred Hall, Andrew Burnham, Gordon Harris, Anne Foy, Mark Simmonds, John Coddington, Max Blagg, Chris Wood, Barry Foster, Craig Disley, Anna Soubry, Simon Coleman, William Henry Johnson, Adam Walker, John Saunders, Wally Battiste, Russell Wainscoat, Len Bratley, Charles Woodhouse, Ed Bulling, George Blackburn, George Richardson, Tim Stockdale, Clive Wigmore, George Wass, Ryan Ford. Excerpt: Adam L. Walker (born in 26 December 1987) is an English classical flautist .Adam was born in Retford , Nottinghamshire . By the age of nine, he had taught himself to play the flute and piano. A year later, he entered Chetham's School of Music , where he studied flute with Gitte Sorensen, also studying piano as a secondary subject.In 2002, at the age of 14, Adam became the youngest ever winner of the British Flute Society Competition and in 2003 won the Royal Overseas League prize for the woodwind player with "the most promise". He has appeared as soloist with the Hall Orchestra at Bridgewater Hall and with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Buckingham Palace . In 2004, he was a concerto finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition performing Nielsen 's Flute Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Later that year he made his debut recital at Wigmore Hall , and gave a recital at St George s Bristol. He ha...