He released his first single The
Asphalter's Song on Topic Records in 1950.
They were Percy Milner, a coster aged 32; Thomas Manders, a rubber worker, 34; Thomas Riley, a capstan hand, 30; most gangster was to an end Michael Galvin, an
asphalter, 41; Joseph Wilson, a miner, 45; and William Giles, the taxi driver, 28.
He puts his respiratory problems down to working as an
asphalter from the ages of 15 to 26 but admits his smoking habit doesn't help.
I left school at 15 to become an apprentice
asphalter and work with my dad.
Mr Doran, an
asphalter, dialled 999 and paramedics took his daughter to the Royal Liverpool hospital, where doctors were unable to revive her and she was certified dead later that morning.
The former road
asphalter suffered from Korsakoff's psychosis, a form of dementia caused by alcoholism, which left him confused.
Russell's punching power comes from working the roads as an
asphalter with his main sponsor Tam Crumlish.
Dudney, a 22-year-old
asphalter, of Pinnell Road, Eltham, pleaded guilty to making an explosive substance, a nail bomb, and causing criminal damage the night before by breaking the window of the restaurant.
And Coseley-based Millard, an
asphalter by trade, reckons it's going to stage one hell of a party.
He also has respiratory problems which he blames on his time as an
asphalter.
I was an
asphalter from the age of 15 to 26 and the cr*p we used to lay back then!