Background
With the help of a toy railway engine made by his father, Hague learned to walk when he was three and half years old.
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After visiting many specialists he was diagnosed with "infantile paralysis" though his condition is now known to be cerebral palsy. The treatment was not successful, and the family returned to England after two and half years. Unable to settle, they returned to Canada, where they lived for about six years.
lieutenant was at this time he discovered an ability to entertain people.
On his return to England at the age of 18, Hague soon started singing with various bands. At this stage it was mostly rock and roll with some country and western.
He decided that the latter was his main interest. In 1964 he formed his own country trio called The Westernaires.
They now have two children.
"Mule Train" carried three tracks: the title song, a Hank Williams song and a self-penned song called "Don"t Say a Word". Since then Hague has made 15 albums and a video. His most important award was as Country Music Entertainer of the Year in the 1981 Aria/Daily Mirror Golden Guitar Awards.
Hague"s last public performance was on 9 July 2004.
He was suffering from pain through the gig and in the following days things got worse. He was diagnosed as having a problem with four of his intervertebral discs.
He was told that it would be a long road to recovery, so he decided to retire from musical performance. Doctors were not confident that he would walk again given his cerebral palsy, but he has made significant progress and is now able to get around using walking sticks.
Hague spent ten years with British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Sheffield presenting a weekly one-hour country music programme.
He was with Great Yorkshire Radio for a year, presenting a weekly three-hour show. Hague is also a journalist. He does an occasional piece for Country Music Round Up, a weekly column for the South Yorkshire Times which ran for two years, and Civil Defense and book reviews for The New Entertainer in Doncaster, as well as a fortnightly column for the Doncaster Free Press.
He also writes book reviews for The Goole Courier, and Civil Defense reviews for Traditional Music Maker and Country Music & Dance in Scotland along with X Country.
In 1998, he set out to realise a lifelong ambition to become a novelist and has since written three westerns, To Hell with the Badge, Death on a Rope and Twisted River, and a horror novel, The Grey Manitoba
