[1] He was educated at St Patrick's School in Oldham and at De La Salle College in Pendleton, Salford.
Hall initially worked as a ventriloquist with a boy dummy, named Mickey Finn, and won a talent show aged 15.
He originally had a mouthful of fearsome teeth, but they were removed at the suggestion of singer Anne Shelton[citation needed] to avoid scaring children in the audience.
[2] Hall visited the United States in 1958, making his debut on The Ed Sullivan Show with Lenny that year.
David Bowie's father, Hayward Jones, worked on the show, and launched the Lenny the Lion Fan Club.