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Gina Waggott

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United Kingdom
As seen in: Yahoo Entertainment, The Telegraph, Yahoo News UK, The Times, Irish Independent, RTÉ Radio 1 - FM (Ireland), The Economy of Everything
Covers:  music, stuttering, nonfiction writing

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Gina Waggott’s Biography

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Writer & Author of Scatman John: The Remarkable Story of the World's Unlikeliest Popstar (Bloomsbury, 2026). Former BBC pro on BAFTA-nominated series. Covert stutterer and food geek.

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The stuttering junkie who became the world's unlikeliest pop star

The stuttering junkie who became the world's unlikeliest pop star

Scatman John rose from piano-bar tinkler to global stardom in the mid-1990s - but his addictions took their t…

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Everest expedition: Only girl in the team part 2

Everest expedition: Only girl in the team part 2

Here we are, halfway through our acclimatisation trek (April 4). Rural Nepal looks like a classic edition of …

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Everest expedition: Only girl in the team

Everest expedition: Only girl in the team

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How Scatman John, a stuttering drug addict, became the world's unlikeliest pop star

How Scatman John, a stuttering drug addict, became the world's unlikeliest pop star

It was one of the strangest phenomena in music history. At the end of 1995, the best-selling male artist in E…

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Author Gina Waggott on the unmistakable sound of Scatman John

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By Gina Waggott, Oliver Callan Verified
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The stuttering junkie who became the world’s unlikeliest pop star

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By Gina Waggott
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
Scatman John overcame addiction and used his stutter to become a pop star - Action Press/Shutterstock It was one of the strangest phenomena in music history. At the end of 1995, the best-selling male artist in Europe was not Michael Jackson, nor any of Britpop’s swaggering new stars, but a 52-year-old American jazz pianist with a pronounced stutter. He had a history of heroin addiction, and no particular interest in fame.
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