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Tom Major-Ball (born Abraham Thomas Ball; 18 May 1879 – 27 March 1962) was a British music hall and circus performer. He was the father of John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.
Abraham, known also as Tom Major-Ball, was born and baptised in 1879 in Bloxwich, Staffordshire, England. He was the son of Abraham Ball and Sarah Ann Marrah. The family lived in Walsall, Staffordshire, where Abraham's father worked as a bricklayer.
15 déc. 1998 · Recent biographers of Bowie maintain that, when writing his tenth single and first hit, Space oddity, in South-East London in early 1969, the budding rock star remembered an old Brixton theatre bill advertising a circus performer named Tom Major and named his song's doomed spaceman Major Tom.
17 oct. 2012 · He brings the same diligence and clear thinking to My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall, an account of one of our much-loved institutions told through the story of his father, Tom Major-Ball, who began his music hall career aged 17, when Queen Victoria was still on the throne.
30 janv. 2023 · Golden Buzzer: Tom Ball WOWS The Judges With "The Sound of Silence" | AGT: All-Stars 2023. AGT 2024: Season 19. 4.14K subscribers.
1 oct. 2012 · Rough music hall life. Born Tom Ball, Major's father adopted the surname when he formed a double act titled Drum and Major with his first partner, Kitty. She died after a safety curtain fell on...
23 mai 2013 · Among the many postwar gnome makers was Tom Major-Ball, father of former British prime minister John Major. But popular though they are, never in a hundred years did one of these little fellows...
