£320.00
The Shakin' Stevens Story (Original)
Medium: Pen & Ink on Acid-free Paper
Size: 13" x 19" (340mm x 470mm)
Date: 1982
Code: GrayMGShakinStevens
This is the unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Maureen & Gordon Gray.
The Look-in published Shakin' Stevens Story depicts the rise of the pop star.
Michael Barratt (born 4 March 1948), known professionally as Shakin' Stevens, is a Welsh singer and songwriter. He was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s.
- Artist BiographyMaureen & Gordon Gray
For such prolific illustrators and comic strip artists, almost nothing is known about Maureen and Gordon Gray. Some library sources give their years of birth as 1932 (Gordon) and 1940 (Maureen), but that information should be treated with care.
Usually signing their work 'Gray', they were regular contributors to comics in the 1980s, producing Kid's Army, a Second World War strip loosely based on the TV sitcom Dad's Army, Fame, based on the TV show, and The Fantastic Adventures of Adam Ant, about pop-star Adam travelling through time to pop up at various points in history. These strips all appeared in DC Thomson's TV Tops comic in around 1982.
The Grays then began appearing in Look-In, contributing Bucks Fizz (1983-84), The Story So Far featuring Shaking Stevens (1985), A-Ha (1986) and Michael Jackson (1986), Airwolf (1986), The A-Team (1986-87) and Five Star Life (1987).
A later graphic novel is credited to Maureen Gray only: The Haunting of Julia (2007) is based on Mary Hooper's children's novel Thirteen Candles, described thus: "When Julia watches Dad's video of herself preparing to blow out the candles, she notices something weird and mysterious, a dark hazy shape, leaning over her shoulder. She's sure it blew out the candles, but what is it?"