David Essex Quotes

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David Essex

Profession : Singer

Birth : July 23, 1947

Family is very important to me and has become more so as I've got older.

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Love and friendship are really the key, I believe, to a relationship - although I can't claim to be an expert!

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There were 13 children on my dad's side and five on my mum's so I come from a big family, but I am an only child - because of my dad's illness, really, but it was fine for me.

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Dad was a longshoreman, a docker, and my mother scrubbed pub floors.

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I played for West Ham juniors and thought I'd become a professional footballer.

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Whitstable Castle has some lovely gardens that are certainly worth a look.

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I recommend walking in Whitstable as it is a compact town. People also take fishing trips from the harbour, but boats and I don't get on that well!

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I'm sad to say that I've never really kept in touch with my Scottish roots. We never went up there when I was a child, but I have visited a lot and had the best New Year's Eve of my life in Edinburgh. It was spectacular.

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I remember recording the Artilleryman's song 'Brave New World' while I was on a big U.K. tour. My voice was a bit whacked. I needed a lot of warming up to hit those falsetto parts.

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I remember doing the film 'Silver Dream Racer' in which the English version had me being blown up on the bike and the American version was changed because he'd just won. I think we Brits seem to like a bit of negative drama at the end.

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I never liked the idea of a fan club, and although I occasionally wrote a letter for mine to send out, I generally kept such activities at arm's length.

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I never do karaoke. I don't enjoy singing to be honest.

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I'm a bit of a Renaissance man. Or you could say I have a short attention span. I'm always thinking, what shall I do now?

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I admire Charles Dickens, mostly for the texture of his writing and the colourful characters he created. His work gives us, I think, a valuable insight into life in that period of time.

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I never really did anything academically.

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I was the drummer hiding behind the cymbals. By the time fame came along, I'd worked in the business for a decade, then suddenly, I was being mobbed.

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My mum loved dancing and played the piano and was gregarious. There were Gypsies on her side of the family. Her dad was from Cork and sometimes in summer I'd go there with my mum to meet up with that side of the family and pick fruit and hops.

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As a kid, my family used to go to a holiday camp in either Clacton-on-Sea or the Isle of Sheppey, on the other side of the Thames Estuary. We'd stay in a caravan or a chalet, and it was very family-orientated.

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My mum always said, 'A land without gypsies is a land without freedom.' And I believe that. I've always been a bit restless, and in search of adventure.

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I was at one of the Krays' clubs, El Morocco. I was singing with Dudley Moore on the piano. Then Ronnie said, 'Come into the office, son.' I didn't even realise the gravity of it. He said, 'You got a manager?' So I said, 'No, I'm OK thanks, Ron. I've got a manager.' He said, 'Well, if you need anybody, you know where to come.'

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