Complex sentence: Born Dennis Pountain, he had a job on the railways as a teenager and was spotted by Percy Mathison Brooks, the editor of the Melody Maker, at a regional dance band contest in 1932.
Split into simpler sentences: Born Dennis Pountain, he had a job on the railways as a teenager. He was spotted by Percy Mathison Brooks, the editor of the Melody Maker, at a regional dance band contest in 1932.