When he was five years old, Lennie Peters (AKA Gary Hall; born Leonard George Sargent, 22 November 1931, Islington, North London) was blinded in one eye in a vehicle accident.
When he was sixteen, a thrown brick blinded his other eye.
Prior to joining Peters and Lee, he worked as a pianist in the London pub scene.
In 1963 and 1964, he released two songs on the Oriole label, “Let the Tears Begin” and “And My Heart Cried.”
He recorded “Stranger in Paradise” for Pye Records in 1966 and “Here We Go Again” for Gemini Records in 1970.
He would return to the latter in 1976 as Peters and Lee.
Is Lennie Peters still alive?
Lennie Peters, a member of the 1970s British singing duo Peters and Lee, died of cancer on Sunday, according to his family. He was 59.
Peters died at his home in Enfield, east of London, on Saturday.
Peters and Dianne Lee were one of Britain’s highest-paid performers in their heyday, with their debut song, ′′Welcome Home,′′ hitting No. 1 on the British charts in 1973.
Peters, who was blind, lost his left eye sight in a car accident when he was five years old.
When he was 16, youngsters on London’s Hampstead Heath threw a brick at him, he lost the use of his other eye.
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