Education
After the football season finished, Rawlinson moved to Barrow.
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Career
Football career
After playing for amateur side Corinthian Juniors, Rawlinson - who played as a centre half - made his professional debut for Bury during the 1964-1965 season, making a total of two League appearances that season. During the 1965-1966 season, Rawlinson scored two goals in nineteen League games for Barrow. Rawlinson later played non-league football for Runcorn, and eventually returned to Barrow (although he never appeared in a first team League game for the club again), where he got his first taste of showbiz in 1969 - after the half-time entertainment failed to show up, Rawlinson stepped in and performed instead.
Entertainment career
After finishing his career as a professional football player, Rawlinson adopted the stage name of Spike Rawlings.
His early career was spent warming audiences up on local television show Those Wonderful television Times. Rawlings later had a small part on When the Boat Comes In, and he regularly acted in pantomimes.
During the late 1980s and 1990s, Rawlings suffered from financial issues. He died in March 2006 in hospital, awaiting a liver transplant.
