When I'm on tour, of course I include some of the hits, but I also do new songs, obscure songs, album tracks and a few surprises. He is now enjoying fame on his own terms His big break came playing Elvis in a West End show, but he has no regrets about taking the part in But I needed the work, and secondly it brought me to the attention of CBS, which is how I landed a worldwide contract. I enjoyed the musical, which won awards. Carl said my performance was very different from that of Elvis.
Indeed producer Jack Good said he wasn't looking for another Elvis, but for performers who'd excite the audience in their own style. I've more to give, so why stop? To me, this is just a new beginning. Ancestors who worked down the mines and who died in battle inspired Shakin' Stevens new album. Expand Expand. Facebook Twitter Email Whatsapp. September 22 AM. Facebook Twitter Email. The lyrics play with the gospel concept of the mortal body being a "house" for your soul, that gets left behind when you go to "meet the saints".
But while he's fondly remembered for those 80s chart successes, Cardiff's answer to The King says he doesn't want to trade on his former glories. Released last month, it's a rootsy, blues-inspired record that's aeons away from the denim-clad, hip-thrusting heart-throb of yesteryear.
The songs earn their dark, rumbling arrangements by delving into Stevens' family history to tell some particularly harrowing stories.
Opening track Down In The Hole talks about his grandfather, born in , who was sent to work in Cornwall's copper mines at the age of Terrible, terrible, terrible. The singer even visited the site of the mines, in Gwennap, to get a feel for the environment.
There, he found pictures of the miners , who would spend an hour every morning climbing down a vertical shaft to work in the pitch black "with just a candle on top of their heads".
And they'd be so tired at the end of the day, they'd fall off the ladder. It was shocking," he says. The singer was prompted to look into his family's history by his partner and manager, Sue Davis. He knew next to nothing about his parents and relatives, who stoically kept their personal problems to themselves. As he started examining birth certificates and electoral registers, the singer uncovered a few family secrets.
Even when I was grown up, that secret was still not let out. Intrigued, Stevens tracked down his half brother and his father's ex-wife in Lincolnshire - but they were as tight-lipped as his parents. Miners used to get there, an hour down the ladders with candles. It was a horrific life. The song Down In The Hole reverberates with the sound of clanging pit hammers.
Stevens was born Michael Barratt. Small living room, small kitchen, but they were very proud of their garden. We had three small bedrooms. There were five boys in the back, top and tail, the girls in the front.
Me and Leslie, the two youngest, were in with our parents. I was very happy but when they all got married and moved out Leslie and I thought we were kings.
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