Stan Kelly-Bootle

Stan Kelly-Bootle
Born
Stanley Bootle

(1929-09-15)15 September 1929
Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died16 April 2014(2014-04-16) (aged 84)
Oswestry, Shropshire, England
Burial place
Highgate Cemetery
Other nameStan Kelly
CitizenshipBritish
EducationDowning College, Cambridge
OccupationComputer scientist
Years active1954–2000s
Employers
Known for
  • Folk-singing and songwriting
  • technology writing
Notable work
  • "Liverpool Lullaby"
  • The Devil’s DP Dictionary
  • The Computer Contradictionary

Stanley Bootle, known as Stan Kelly-Bootle (15 September 1929 – 16 April 2014), was a British author, academic, singer-songwriter and computer scientist.

He took his stage name Stan Kelly from the Irish folk song "Kelly, the boy from Killane". His best-known song is the "Liverpool Lullaby" or "The Mucky Kid" which was first recorded in 1965. Kelly-Bootle achieved the first postgraduate degree in computer science in 1954, from the University of Cambridge, working for computer companies in the US and UK, before becoming a freelance consultant and writer.

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