I never dwell on them.
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Shakin' Stevens
Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter
United Kingdom · b. 1948
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Born in Cardiff, Shakin’ Stevens, 74, was the UK’s biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s, with songs such as This Ole House, Green Door and Merry Christmas Everyone. In 2016, he released the album Echoes of Our Times, and last year he toured with Status Quo. His latest single is It All Comes Round and his album Re-Set is out on 28 April. He has three children and lives in Buckinghamshire with his manager and second wife, Sue Davies.
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I had a cardiac arrest in 2010. I also had a close call in the early days in Cardiff when I was in a band called the Denims. We were in a van driving along a narrow mountain road. Somebody wanted to go to the toilet, so we stopped, and afterwards the driver took a wrong turn and we went careering down the mountain. Everyone was screaming, it was like a nightmare. At the bottom was the railway line, but the van stopped just in time. We were very lucky.
A world without music.
Bullying, whether face to face or online.
I was in the musical Elvis, and after a costume change I went below stage to be raised up on a platform. As I was raised up, I blanked and couldn’t remember the first line of the song King Creole. I mumbled the first few lines and hoped nobody would notice.
You only get out what you put in. Karma – it all comes round.
Giving people enjoyment.
It would be nice just to be remembered.
More green tea – I’m addicted.
When I was recording a track called May, about my mum.
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