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Once in a lifetime: Hot Chocolate, David Cassidy, Leo Sayer and Smokie come to Wembley Arena
October 30, 2012
The Ealing Times
www.ealingtimes.co.uk
David Cassidy
Relive your youth with Once in a Lifetime, an unforgettable UK tour featuring the crème de la crème of 70s superstars and hit singles from pop icons David Cassidy, Leo Sayer, Hot Chocolate and Smokie. Coming to Wembley next week, the four artists have a combined total of 55 Top Ten singles and more than 200 million record sales.
Hot Chocolate started out in 1968 and in 1970 began releasing tracks that went on to become hits, such as Love Is Life, Emma, You Could Have Been a Lady and I Believe in Love.
It was in the disco era of the mid-1970s that they really hit the big time, however, when they had chart success with the likes of You Sexy Thing and Every 1's a Winner, and in 1977 they finally reached the Number One spot with So You Win Again.
The band were the only group, one of just three acts, to score a hit in every year of the 1970s – alongside Elvis Presley and Diana Ross – and they went on to have at least one hit each year between 1970 and 1984.
They disbanded in 1986, when founder and frontman Errol Brown left to follow a solo career, and the group reformed in 1992 and have been performing together ever since. They perform at Wembley with vocalist Kennie Simon, who has been on board since 2010.
David Cassidy has managed to stay at the top of the music game for more than four decades, thanks to his unique ability to reinvent himself in various different genres, including concerts, theatre, TV and Las Vegas.
David rose to fame in the iconic The Partridge Family and became the biggest TV and performing phenomenon in history by the time he was 20, being the first personality to be merchandised globally.
David was responsible for seven chart-topping Partridge Family singles including Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted, I Woke Up In Love This Morning, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, and of course, I Think I Love You, the best selling record of 1971. As a solo artist, David has had hit singles including Cherish, Could It Be Forever, How Can I Be Sure, Rock Me Baby and Lyin' to Myself.
Leo Sayer is held in great esteem as a live performer and recording artist by all age groups – this is perhaps as much due to his appearing with the Muppets, the Wiggles and on the Charlies' Angels soundtrack as to the countless hit songs he has written and performed throughout his 40-plus-year-career.
Starting out in 1973, Leo had his first major turning point in 1976 with You Make Me Feel Like Dancing. The song won him a Grammy. Further hits included Dancing The Night Away, Raining In My Heart, and I Can't Stop Loving You.
With chart-topping hits like Living Next Door to Alice, Lay Back in the Arms of Someone and If You Think You Know How to Love Me, and constant tours of the UK and Europe, the internationally successful British pop group Smokie is one of the most popular bands in the world today.
Smokie formed at school in Yorkshire in the late 1960s and their songs became radio staples.
Once in a Lifetime comes to Wembley Arena, Arena Square, Engineers Way, Wembley on Sunday, November 11. Details: 0844 815 0815, www.wembleyarena.co.uk
