and variants thereof) providing services to the city centre, as well as to Huyton and St Helens. Notable residents Terence Davies, screenwriter and filmmaker. Natasha Hamilton, singer John Head, musician Mick Head, musician Paul Mason, football player. Joe McGann, actor. Mark McGann, actor, director, and musician. Paul McGann, actor. Stephen McGann, actor. Ian McNabb, musician. David Morrissey, actor and director. Percy Phillips, studio owner and recording engineer Sydney Silverman, Labour MP Phil Thompson, football player Colin Welland, actor and film director. Eddie Youds, Everton F.C., football player. Cultural references Music On 14 July 1958, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and other members of the Quarrymen skiffle group, which later evolved into the Beatles, made their first sound recording at Phillips' Sound Recording Services studio located at 38 Kensington, Kensington, Liverpool. John Lennon Drive is a street in Kensington. The Kensington area is also referred to in the song Streets of Kenny on the H.M.S. Fable album by Liverpudlian band Shack. Television Millionaire John Elliott spent ten days in the district living in a council flat under state benefits as part of the Channel 4 programme The Secret Millionaire (episode broadcast 6 December 2006). He assisted a family living in a council house as well as paying several thousand pounds to a local asylum centre. Strictly, the road he lived on throughout his stay, Balmoral Road, is in the Fairfield district. Shots of boarded up houses, edited into the film to support the opinion from a local person that there was little sign of regeneration in Kensington, were actually from the Gladstone Road area of Edge Hill district and were scheduled for demolition (currently underway). The person being interviewed was at the time on Balmoral Road, approx 1 mile away. See also Christ Church, Kensington References External links Liverpool City Council, Ward Profile: Kensington & Fairfield Liverpool Street Gallery – Liverpool 6 Liverpool Street Gallery – Liverpool 7 Areas of Liverpool