Roger Guy English
American businessman
Roger Guy English, also known as Teenangel, is an American businessman, disc jockey and film critic who achieved seven Guinness World Records in San Diego County in under a three year period during the 1970s.
Early life
English was born in 1950 in Orange, California. He attempted a major in cinematography at San Diego Mesa College and was a literary student at University of California, San Diego, but dropped out. He wrote two books, which he was unable to sell.
World records
In 1970, English walked from his home in La Jolla, California, to Vancouver, Canada, with his cousin, Valerie Mayers, in hopes of spreading awareness about environmental pollution and smog. Upon returning home, crowds deemed him a local celebrity. English was tipped to do a publicity stunt to help build his popularity. This started his desire to attempt setting world records such as throwing 200 bottles with messages into the ocean and living in a car on a dealer's lot for a month.
English set his first four world records in under a year, from July 1973 to April 1974. After flipping through a book of Guinness World Records, he decided to do the Twist.
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