Background
Carroll was born Ronald Cleghorn in Roslyn Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1934, the son of a plumber.
politician singer television presenter
Carroll was born Ronald Cleghorn in Roslyn Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1934, the son of a plumber.
He scored his first hit in 1956 with "Walk Hand in Hand" on the Philips label. He is the only singer to have represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest two years in succession. This success was followed by two Top 10 hits during 1962 and 1963, but a lack of good material meant that he could not sustain a chart presence.
Carroll subsequently worked on cruise ships, including the QE2, with John Marcangelo who was the drummer with the Ronnie Carroll Orchestra.
He played a popular musician named "Ronnie" in the 1965 film Manitoba in the Dark. He contested his home Hampstead and Highgate constituency in the 1997 United Kingdom General Election, and the Uxbridge by-election in July that year with the Rainbow Alliance.
In the 2005 he released a comeback album, Back on Song. He stood in the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election as a candidate for Make Politicians History and received 29 votes despite announcing that he was trying to enter the record books by receiving no votes.
He latterly lived in Hampstead, London, and was a regular caller to phone-in shows on British Broadcasting Corporation London 94.9.
He died aged 80 on 13 April 2015. Carroll stood as a candidate (under the name "The Eurovisionary Carroll") for the 2015 United Kingdom general election, in the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency. In the event he polled 113 votes to finish sixth out of seven candidates.
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