Bryan Calvert

Bryan Calvert appeared on Coronation Street in December 1989 as Bryan, the pianist who accompanied Rita Fairclough when she sang You Are the Sunshine of My Life and Fly Me to the Moon at the Strand Hotel in Blackpool.

A highly accomplished musical director (for Jimmy Young, The Kaye Sisters and Barbara Knox amongst others) and jazz pianist he depped for Derek Hilton at Granada Television, although mainly worked the nightclub scene. Along with his daughter (songwriter Lynne Calvert) on drums and Pete Taylor on bass, the "Bryan Calvert Trio" performed regularly in the North West during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

His career also includes appearances in The Late Scene, Thank God It's Friday and The Good Old Days.