Shakin' Stevens
Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter
Giving people enjoyment.
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The contentment I have now.
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Raising my children, Tom and Libby, on my own.
Being married for 17 years and having two amazing children.
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Retaining my sense of self in an insecure job.
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View profile →My dad said, “You’re going nowhere.” I was seven or eight.
I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.
Gerry Adams, because he’s got incredible integrity and vision, and he’s had to put up with so much flak.
My brother Pete passing on in 2005.
I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.
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