David Essex

Still going strong after having celebrated his fiftieth year in the business just last year, David Essex has one hell of a track record to boast of; over the course of his half century in music to date, he’s racked up no fewer than nineteen top forty singles in his native UK - including two that went to the top of the rundown - as well as an impressive sixteen top forty albums, too. He’s also had an extensive and widely successful career as an actor, but there’s no real questioning that his first love would appear to be music; so much so, in fact, that he continues, sporadically at least, to write and record new music, with his most recent new album, Happily Ever After, having been released in 2007. Additionally, he remains an active live performer, having taken up a slot on the Once in a Lifetime tour earlier this year that took Essex to arenas around the UK, playing in front of huge audiences as part of a bill that also included The Osmonds, the Bay City Rollers and Showaddywaddy; for Essex, that also meant a return to his hometown of East London, playing at the O2 Arena in front of a massive audience.