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having been involved with the now infamous faked footage from the beginning with business partner and friend Ray Santilli.

Career

Shoefield was involved in various roles with children's television programmes, such as ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 1990 he collaborated with the F.A.B. group which had a few hits by sampling movie dialogues to electronic music. They are best known for ''Thunderbirds Are Go'' which reached No. 5 in the UK Top 40. For a time he also managed television actor

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. He has also worked with self-described psychic

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, having launched him on TV in the UK. Shoefield has worked for

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, PolyGram,

EMI EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At t ...

and ITV.

Footnotes

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