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David Essex

May 2021

  • ‘I dance like a duck’ … Jeremy Irons, right, as Judas in London; the musical’s first commercial staging in New York was 50 years ago this month.

    How we made
    ‘We even performed it in front of the pope!’ – how we made Godspell

    ‘Religious groups didn’t like Jesus wearing a Superman shirt or the lack of a resurrection. So we told them the curtain call was the resurrection – when Jesus runs on and takes a bow’

December 2017

  • Illustration of woman's body

    My life in sex
    My life in sex: ‘I fantasise about Davy Jones, David Cassidy and David Essex’

    The 62-year-old post-menopausal woman

September 2017

  • Barney Ronay

    From David Essex to refugees – how cricket has formed bonds in south London

    Barney Ronay
    The Brixton pulse may be long gone but cricket is once more showing how it can be a social glue in the area by integrating Afghans and helping them recover from recent traumas

February 2016

  • Heidi Range, Jimmy Nail, Michael Praed, Madalena Alberto, David Essex and Daniel Bedingfield in Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds.

    The War of the Worlds review – a holographic Liam Neeson delivers apocalyptic news

    HG Wells’ prose is the hero of Jeff Wayne’s full-blown musical revival, which has enough bombast to drown out any ringtones in the audience

September 2014

  • Elaine Paige in Evita

    Evita review – breathtaking inventiveness and quicksilver fluency

    From the archive: Michael Billington reviews the opening night of Evita with Elaine Paige and David Essex in June 1978

August 2014

  • The Guvnors

    The Guvnors review – feral losers and former hooligans

    This unsubtle effort treats one-time football hooligans as if they were Camelot knights, and features a twinkly David Essex, writes Mike McCahill

April 2014

  • Dead but not forgotten: (clockwise) John Lennon, Whitney Houston, Joe Strummer, Marvin Gaye and Aali

    From John Lennon to Michael Jackson: rock stars on their dead heroes

    Ian Gittins: With the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death this weekend, Ozzy Osbourne, Blondie, Katy B and others talk about when they heard their musical hero had died

January 2014

  • Original War of the Worlds album artwork

    How we made
    Jeff Wayne and David Essex: how we made The War of the Worlds

    Composer Jeff Wayne and singer David Essex on how it took years – and a letter to Richard Burton – to transform HG Wells's story into a hit record-spewing concept album

June 2011

  • Nicola Stapleton

    TV and radio blog
    EastEnders: remember Mandy Salter?

    Stuart Heritage: After a 17-year absence Nicola Stapleton returns as Mandy. Which other characters should the soap resurrect?

January 2011

  • David Essex

    Singer David Essex to join EastEnders as Alfie Moon's uncle

    1970s pop idol and musical star hired to bring some stardust to BBC1 soap opera

August 2010

  • A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

    My first X-rated movie

    Sneaking into an X-rated film was once the ultimate thrill – even if you needed your granny to get you in. Jane Graham hears some first-timers' stories

May 2010

  • David Essex

    My family values
    David Essex: My family values

    The singer talks about his family
  • All the Fun of the Fair

    All the Fun of the Fair

    Garrick, London
    In All the Fun of the Fair, I held out hope that we might actually see the Wall of Death on stage, but it fades quickly in an evening that races along to nowhere with bland, blinkered efficiency, writes Lyn Gardner

  • Bumper cars in All the Fun of the Fair

    All the Fun of the Fair

    Garrick, London
    Fans swoon at the sight of David Essex in All the Fun of the Fair. Imogen Carter joins them

November 2009

  • David Essex

    What I see in the mirror
    What I see in the mirror: David Essex

    'Now I'm a grandfather I'm not comfortable with an earring'

February 2008

  • Sound and Fury over Billy

    Bob Stanley on the quiffs, hits and bitter quarrels

February 2006

  • Let's hear it for Slag Bag!

    Who needs real pop stars when the best music movies are about fake bands? By Bob Stanley.

July 2005

  • London calling

    Mark Holden sees the capital through Saint Etienne's eyes.

May 2002

  • Night of 1,000 Voices

    Royal Albert Hall, London

December 1999

  • Dream machine: David Essex

    A David Essex gig is like a gigantic hen night. On Monday at the Royal Albert Hall the audience is roughly 85% women. As soon as the lights dim, a crowd of 30- and 40-something fans run to the front with military precision, ignoring the bouncers' half-hearted attempts to assert the Albert Hall's genteel seating policy. When Essex strides on stage amid the dry ice in a long, dapper, black frock-coat, they all scream.

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