George Hargreaves (politician)

James George Hargreaves (born 14 July 1957), known as George Hargreaves or J. G. Hargreaves, is a religious minister, political campaigner, former leader of the Christian Party, and former music producer and songwriter.

Of Trinidadian descent, Hargreaves grew up in Islington. He has said that as a child his life was saved by a firefighter who rescued him from his burning house. He was educated at King's College London, the University of Oxford, and at the University of St Andrews.

Hargreaves attended Woolverstone Hall, a boarding school owned by the Inner London Education Authority. While still at school, he formed a band named "Snap" with Tony Ajai-Ajagbe. The duo were signed by a local studio and released a single in 1974, but were dropped when it proved unsuccessful. They were later employed as songwriters by Jobete Music, and Hargreaves moved into producing.

In the 1980s, Hargreaves and Ajai-Ajagbe worked at Magnet Records. They wrote the theme tune for Pebble Mill at One and Hargreaves promoted pop acts including Sinitta, Yazz and Five Star. He also wrote and produced several disco records for Sinitta, including "So Macho" and "Cruising", which were popular in the gay community. He told Scotland on Sunday that "So Macho" was intended "...for women to dance round their handbags to and for the gay scene to go mad to on poppers" and that "I was never gay, but I had a lot of lovely friends in the gay scene."

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