Rock On

Heard on the radio this morning that David Essex turned 60 today.

Whilst we should desperately try and ignore his later years of Andrew Lloyd Webber-isms and general "musical theatre" leanings, his early years were pretty entertaining even if I can only bring myself to admit it now - he was saddled with too much of a teenybopper image for us boys to take seriously...

He starred in two cult classic films That'll Be The Day and Stardust both concerned with the rise and ultimate fall of rock star Jim MacLaine and his debut single Rock On remains to this day on of the bravest attempts at chart success ever. Bass driven with an echoey, dub-like production, Rock On was an unlikely but worthy success.

I understand his long standing fans are mounting a campaign to get Rock On back into the charts to celebrate the occassion. It would certainly rank head and shoulders above anything in there at the moment.

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