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THE GOOD OLD DAYS: AFTER 14 YEARS OF
PERSEVERANCE AND HARD WORK, SHAKIN' STEVENS HAS EMERGED AS ONE OF BRITAIN'S TOP MALE SINGERS.
SINCE HIS SIGNING WITH EPIC U.K.IN '79, SHAKIN' STEVENS' WORLDWIDE SALES TOTAL OVER 6 MILLION SINGLES,
3 MILLION ALBUMS. BY EARLY 1982 HE HAD SCORED 4 '1' U.K. HIT SINGLES AND ONE TOP 10 SUCCESS FROM HIS PREVIOUS
5 BRITISH ALBUMS. TRULY AN INTER- NATIONAL ARTIST, SHAKY HAS APPEARED ON TELEVISION PROGRAMS IN
EVERY SINGLE EUROPEAN COUNTRY.
THE PAST: It was at school in Cardiff, Wales
that Shaky, first decided he wanted to be a rock & roll singer. With his group the
Sunsets, he began playing the club circuit in Wales.
However, for the next few years major success eluded him. He toured extensively with the Sunsets
and enjoyed a couple of minor hit records in Holland. In 1979 TV rock producer and entrepreneur
Jack Good invited him of a 36 week syndicated television series
"Let's Rock." That show was seen in 35 markets in the US By this time Shaky had left the Sunsets
to embark on a solo career, starting with his debut Epic LP and a Top 20 hit 'Hot Dog'. The Shakin'
Stevens phenomenon rests on a successful combination of oldies such as "This Ole House and "Green Door"
along with brand new compositions such as "Marie Marie" and his biggest worldwide hit
"You Drive Me Crazy" Shaky has also developed his own song writing, of which "Oh Julie"
went to the highest chart position in the United Kingdom!!
NOWADAYS [2009]: Shaky performes in public
quite often to promote his new album called "NOW LISTEN"
In 2008 he performed during the open air festival in England/Glastonbury and faced a massive crowd from the
Pyramid stage where he was on. He also did a mini tour in Ireland and in the pipeline for this spring is the
appearance of the whole back catalog in a "remastered" CD-BOX. Check here for
more news!
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