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Alan Yentob was born in Stepney, east London, in 1947, the son of Jewish immigrants from Iraq.

This time, though, Maurice White elevated his friend Charles Stepney, whom he’d known since the Chess days and who’d worked on “Open Our Eyes,” to a role as his co-producer; Bailey, Johnson and Verdine White all agree that Stepney pushed the group to a new level of creativity — and a new level of diligence.

Stepney was “definitely the dad in our group,” Bailey says in the 2001 documentary “Shining Stars”; the band’s focus was so intense, the singer tells The Times, that he had trouble processing the loss of his mother, who died during the recording process.

The Bishop of Stepney, Dr Joanne Grenfell, who is lead bishop for safeguarding, had put forward a motion to the General Synod for all Church-employed safeguarding officers to be transferred to a new independent body.

A poem was read as the stadium fell silent, with United legends Sir Alex Ferguson, Pat Crerand, Alex Stepney and Brian Kidd all present.