Mike Jackson, pictured here with Conway Twitty, was a 14-year-old schoolboy discovery when he made his Oh Boy! debut on 16th May 1959.

Jack Good signed him up to appear, fully realising that the hiring of a schoolboy would get much press coverage. The son of a Hull publican, the
education authorities in Hull gave Mike eight days off school for rehearsals, after he had been discovered rocking 'n' rolling in the pub.
His first day off from form 111-B of Craven Street Secondary modern school was to attend a Press conference in the London offices of ABC TV in Hanover Square, London.