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Roger McGough Order of the British Empire|OBE
(born 1937) is a well-known United Kingdom|British
performance poet.

He was born in north Liverpool, a city with which
he is firmly associated in most people's minds. He
was educated at the University of Hull at a time
when the chief librarian was Philip Larkin.
Returning to Merseyside in the early 1960s he met
Mike McGear and John Gorman – both
multi-talented entertainers. Together they formed
The Scaffold, a comedy group, hitting number one
in the British charts in 1968 with Lily the Pink.
McGough co-wrote many of their songs. He continues
to perform widely.

McGough was also responsible for much of the
humorous dialogue in The Beatles' animated movie
Yellow Submarine, although he did not receive an
on-screen credit for it.

Along with Adrian Henri and Brian Patten, with
whom he published two best-selling volumes of
verse, McGough won fame of a slightly more serious
nature as one of the "Mersey Poets" of the 1960s
and 1970s|70s.

He now presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry
Please and records voice-overs for
Advertising|commercials.

He was awarded the Order of the British Empire|CBE
in June 2004.

Books
*Summer with Monika (1967) (in record form, 1978)
*Out of Sequence (1972)
*Sporting Relations (1974)
*Defying Gravity  (1993)
*The Way Things Are (1999)
*Everyday Eclipses (2002)