David Essex Quotes

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David Essex

Profession : Singer

Birth : July 23, 1947

There was a period of time that I got rather big-headed. It lasted about three weeks.

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I've got three sons, so I can understand that father-son relationship to a certain extent. There's always that lack of communication through the teenage years; that period when, at about 16, you realise that your dad is just a man and not some kind of super-hero.

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I came from music really.

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For me the 60s was important because I was a teenager then and the bands then were the influences.

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I'm just a natural scruff and I don't worry about face lifts and botox.

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I've always been embarrassed by that side of my reputation, my focus has always been the music or piece of theatre or film that I'd doing. It's never been the good look department.

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I'm not a natural extrovert and go to showbizzy things.

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I was always a little detached from the 'famous' aspect of it all - fame and fortune was really a peripheral thing, it was never a reason.

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I was never one of those people who was desperate to be famous.

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I'm fairly frugal. I don't need money for a big pop-star life really.

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There was always music in our house and my mum used to play the piano in a pub, so we were a fairly musical family.

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I developed a passion for American blues music, and I'd buy albums from a record shop in Soho, which I played on my Dansette record player. My favourites were blues legends Memphis Slim, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters.

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I thought if I played the drums I could at least hide behind the cymbals if I was no good.

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My East End secondary school was a horror show. We didn't study art, music or anything creative, and a bleak mood of edgy indifference permeated the school.

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Possibly my most perilous encounter with out-of-control fans came when I was due to go into Radio 1 for an interview with breakfast-show DJ Tony Blackburn.

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I knew that these girls who 'loved David Essex' didn't even know me, with all my foibles: they loved an impossible, glossy, unrealistic ideal of me, assembled from the music, the cinema screen and the pages of Jackie magazine.

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My priority in life has always been family. I actually think children teach you to be a man.

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My kids are the best thing ever. They've got different mums, which is just the way things happen sometimes, but they all get on, they're great.

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You have a responsibility towards the people besotted with you, they don't know the real you, so to take advantage of that wouldn't be right.

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