Alan Holdsworth

This article is about the musician and disability activist. For the composer and rock guitarist, see Allan Holdsworth.

Alan Holdsworth (born 1952 in Salford, stage name Johnny Crescendo) is a British musician and disability activist living in Philadelphia, United States.[1]

He participated in the 1990 and 1992 Block Telethon campaign while living in the United Kingdom.[2] In 2013, he founded the first Disability Pride event in the United States.[2]

The 2022 BBC Two docudrama Then Barbara Met Alan tells the story of Holdsworth and Barbara Lisicki and their work with the Disabled People's Direct Action Network.[3]

Holdsworth has been affected by polio and uses a wheelchair.[4]

  1. ^ "Alan Holdsworth". National Disability Arts Collection & Archive. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b Webster, Lucy (9 December 2022). "From the wheelchair-using Black Panther to the 'cripple suffragette' – 10 heroes of the disabled rights movement". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  3. ^ "First look images released for BBC's Then Barbara Met Alan". Royal Television Society. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  4. ^ "English Singer Songwriter Johnny Crescendo| Disabled Musician | Can Do Musos". www.candomusos.com. Retrieved 21 March 2022.