He was innate around northwards Liverpool, a city using which he is firmly associated around virtually all population's minds. He was educated at a University of Hull at a instance once a principal bibliothec was Philip Larkin. Giving to Merseyside in the early 1960s he met Mike McGear and John Gorman – both multi-talented entertainers. Together it formed The Scaffold, a comedy class action, hitting first within the British stock and index charts in 1968 with Lily the Pink. McGough co-wrote numerous of their songs. He continues to perform widely.

McGough was likewise responsible tremendously of the humourous dialogue in The Beatles' animated moving picture Yellow Submarine, although he did not receive an in-screen credit for it.

Along by owning Adrian Henri and Brian Patten, with whom he published 2 right-selling volumes of verse, McGough won fame of a slightly further good nature and severity when one of the "Mersey Poets" of the 1960s and 70s.

Within 1978 McGough appeared in All You Need Is Cash, a mockumentary detailing the career of the Beatles-such as class action known as The Rutles. Within McGough's scene his introduction will require auf wiedersehen that he is merely asked a single wonder ("Did you know the Rutles?," to which McGough cheerfully responds "Oh yes.") prior to a infotainment is forced to move along to more cases.

He at present presents a BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please and records voice-overs for commercials.

He was awarded a CBE in June 2004.

Books
Summer by having Monika (1967) (in record form, 1978) Away from Sequence (1972) Sporting Relations (1974) Defying Gravity (1993) A Way Items Come (1999) Everyday Occultation (2002)