“For a scruffy London kid like me the sights and sounds of the countryside, the wind on your face, was a different world. I remember my Uncle Levi who was tall and handsome and told wonderful stories. He told me the natural life was important, not the material things.”

English singer-songwriter and actor

David Essex is an English singer-songwriter and actor, best known for his chart success in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s. Born in 1947, he became a familiar figure in British popular music and later on screen. From 1973 to 1994, he placed nineteen singles in the UK Top 40 and sixteen albums in the UK Top 40. His biggest international success came with the 1973 single "Rock On", which remains the song most closely associated with him.