David Essex Quotes

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David Essex

Profession : Singer

Birth : July 23, 1947

I lived in a workhouse with my mum. Our room was a curtained cubicle and my dad lived in another wing.

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I'm a drummer that's what really I am, and it's gone downhill from there!

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I lived in America for a while but England is very much my home, and London especially.

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I tend to enjoy wherever I am, but in the Seventies I had a hairy time in a town just outside Nashville. Someone from our band had misbehaved and the local sheriff turned up waving a gun, so we had to crawl out of the hotel window to make a dash for it.

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I first started going to Kent from the East End, where I was brought up, when I was a very small boy, going with my family to pick hops on working holidays. That was the first time I'd ever seen the countryside. Kent has a special place in my heart.

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I'm very fond of Cuba and going anywhere off the beaten track.

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I like active and interesting holidays - I'm not a sun worshipper at all.

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It's not that I have any general aversion to technology but online banking just seems to be asking for trouble. You can have enough problems offline, so why increase the risk?

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I always tip because I think waiters and waitresses are paid peanuts. But I only give 10pc.

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I don't believe in surgery or any of that stuff: I have earned every grey hair, and I'm proud of it.

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My blue-grey Irish eyes are from my grandfather, who was a travelling tinker.

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Whatever was clean I would wear, and I never pandered to that pop idol thing. But they stuck me in various teenage magazines and it developed from there.

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My first concert tour was extraordinary - I couldn't hear what was going on and no one else could hear what was going on, because there was so much screaming. Once a fan jumped from the royal box. It all took me by surprise.

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You don't have to spend a fortune to have a good holiday.

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When I was about 16, I spent a couple of months playing at clubs in Italy with a blues band. I'll never forget stepping off the plane because Italy just smelt so different - a combination of warmth and coffee.

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I once travelled through India by myself, staying in really basic places. I've never minded 'slumming it.'

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I am a nice person I think.

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I think I'm a good person.

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I should have put the emphasis on America a little earlier - toured there or done something. But I never did.

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I had a furious row with a certain man in charge about the way they wanted to market me in America. They wanted to go very heavily on the teen-idol aspect. I was bemused by that kind of bedroom-poster image, but it was the last thing I wanted to promote.

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