Max Boyce

Welsh comedian and folk singer

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Also known as Maxwell Boyce

Born: September 27, 1943
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Birthplace: Glynneath
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Occupation: comedian
, singer
Education: University of Glamorgan
Languages spoken, written or signed: English

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Leonard Maxwell Boyce is a Welsh comedian, singer and entertainer from Glynneath, Wales. He rose to fame in the mid-1970s with an act that combined musical comedy with his passion for rugby union and his origins in a South Wales mining community. Boyce's We All Had Doctors' Papers (1975) remains the only comedy album to have topped the UK Albums Chart; he has sold more than two million albums in a career spanning four decades.

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Sex or gender: male
Given name: Max
Genre: pop music
Website: maxboyce.co.uk web feed url: maxboyce.co.uk
Instrument: acoustic guitar
voice
Label: EMI
Family name: Boyce
Start of work period: 1971
Awards: Member of the Order of the British Empire

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