Shakin' Stevens also known as 'Shaky' (born Michael Barratt, 4 March 1948, in Ely, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales) is a Welsh rock and roll singer, who has the distinction of being the top selling male UK singles artist of the 1980s. Ely electoral ward of Cardiff Ely (Welsh Trelai tref town + Elai River Ely) is a suburb primarily dominated by council housing in western Cardiff, Wales. ... This article is about the country. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Epic Records is an American record label, owned and operated by Sony BMG. // Epic was launched originally as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 by CBS. Its bright-yellow, black and blue logo became a familiar trademark for many jazz and classical releases. ... is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ely electoral ward of Cardiff Ely (Welsh Trelai tref town + Elai River Ely) is a suburb primarily dominated by council housing in western Cardiff, Wales. ... South Glamorgan is a ceremonial preserved county of Wales, one of the divisions of the traditional county of Glamorgan. ... This article is about the country. ... This article is about the country. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... “Instrumentalist” redirects here. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ...

Career

He was the youngest of 11 children born in Ely, South Glamorgan to John and May Barrett.

He began his career fronting Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets, managed by Paul Barrett. The Sunsets were a 1950s influenced rock'n'roll outfit from Penarth, South Glamorgan. An early break for the band arrived when they were given a support slot for The Rolling Stones in December 1969. Despite landing a recording contract with Parlophone Records the following year, the band found success hard to come by, at least in their native Great Britain, though they had hit singles in other countries. After seven years of constant touring and recording, Shaky left the band in 1977 and gained a lead role in Jack Good's "Elvis!" musical. Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... “Rolling Stones” redirects here. ... Parlophone is a record label which was founded in Germany prior to World War I by the Carl Lindstrom Company. ...

Regular TV appearances on the revamped TV show Oh Boy led eventually to his first chart success, a reworked version of a Buck Owens song "Hot Dog", which Owens would go on to re-record using Stevens arrangement which had been created by pedal steel guitar player B.J. Cole. Oh Boy is a 1975 UK number-one single by Mud. ... Alvis Edgar Buck Owens, Jr. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Cochise is a country rock band that performed in the 1970s. ...

In 1979, Shaky signed what was to be his most successful management deal with Freya Miller, and in 1981, he had his first UK number 1 with "This Ole House" and would have 10 more songs reach the top 5, including three number 1 hits with "Green Door", "Oh Julie" and "Merry Christmas Everyone", while "You Drive Me Crazy" and "A Love Worth Waiting For" reached number 2 in 1981 and 1984 respectively. His 1984 hit "Teardrops" featured Hank B. Marvin on guitar and Stevens has often featured famous musicians such as Albert Lee, Roger Taylor, Bonnie Tyler and more recently Tony Joe White on his recordings. In the mid 80s, Stevens reunited with former producer Dave Edmunds to record an album Lipstick, Powder and Paint and the Christmas smash "Merry Christmas Everyone". This Ole House is a popular song. ... (The) Green Door is a popular song. ... Oh Julie was a UK number one single for one week for Shakin Stevens in January 1982. ... Merry Christmas Everyone was a popular song by Shakin Stevens. ... Brian Robson Rankin (born 28 October 1941), better known by the stage name Hank B. Marvin, is the English lead guitarist for the band The Shadows. ... Albert Lee is an English guitarist. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Bonnie Tyler (real name Gaynor Hopkins), born on June 8, 1951 in Skewen in Wales, United Kingdom is a pop/rock singer. ... Tony Joe White (born July 23, 1943 in Goodwill, Louisiana) is a singer and songwriter best known for his 1969 hit Polk Salad Annie, and for Rainy Night in Georgia which he wrote, but which was first made popular by Brook Benton. ... “Sound recorder” redirects here. ... Dave Edmunds (born April 15, 1944) is a singer, guitarist and producer from Cardiff, Wales. ...

The hits continued throughout the 1980s, making Stevens the biggest selling artist of the decade, and into the early 1990s. Chart successes also included his album Shaky reaching number 1.

It was in the 1990s, however, that Stevens took a lengthy break from recording and was stung by a court ruling requiring a substantial payout to former bandmates the Sunsets. In 1999, Shaky returned to performing and undertook tours that year and the year following. In 2004, things started to look up for Stevens he had a further platinum CD / DVD album in Denmark and a gold album in South Africa. “Golden record” redirects here. ... A compact disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ... Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ... An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ... “Golden record” redirects here. ...

In the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge, Stevens' fictional endorsement of Partridge's book Bouncing Back - in which he described it as "lovely stuff" - was supposedly critical to its success. A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Im Alan Partridge is a British sitcom. ... Information Gender Male Date of birth April 2, 1955 ) Occupation Radio and Television Broadcaster Portrayed by Steve Coogan Alan Gordon Partridge is a fictional television and radio presenter portrayed by English comedian Steve Coogan. ...

In 2005, he returned once again to the charts in the United Kingdom, with his greatest hits album The Collection, which reached the UK top 5. That year, he also appeared in the video to Tony Christie's and Peter Kay's #1 hit single "Is This the Way to Amarillo", alongside many other UK stars, including Ronnie Corbett, Jim Bowen, Michael Parkinson and Geoffrey Hayes. He was the winner on the reality television show, Hit Me Baby One More Time. This was quickly followed by a re-release of his cover and his own biggest hit sung in the show, ("Trouble" covering Pink's version) / "This Ole House"), which reached #20 on the UK Singles Chart in June 2005, his 33rd Top 40 hit in the United Kingdom. A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... Tony Christie (born Antony Fitzgerald; April 25, 1943) is an English male singer from Conisbrough, South Yorkshire. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Is This the Way to Amarillo is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, referring to Amarillo, Texas. ... Ronnie Corbett in Extras Ronald Balfour Corbett, OBE (born 4 December 1930 in Edinburgh, commonly credited as Ronnie Corbett) is a British comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies. ... Jim Bowen (born James Brown-Whittaker in Padiham, Burnley, Lancashire, August 20, 1937) is an English stand-up comedian and TV personality. ... Michael Parkinson CBE (born 28 March 1935) is an English broadcaster and journalist. ... Geoffrey Hayes (born: 13 March 1942 in Cheshire, England) is an English television presenter and actor, best known as the host of Thames Televisions top-rated childrens show Rainbow from 1973 to 1992. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. ... Hit Me Baby One More Time was a 2005 reality show first aired by ITV on British television and later, as a new version, by NBC in the United States; both were presented by Vernon Kay. ... Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania), better known by her stage name P!NK (also written as Pink), is an American singer-songwriter who gained prominence in early January of 2000. ... “British Hit Singles” redirects here. ... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ... In popular music, a chart-topper is an extremely popular recording, identified by its inclusion in a ranked list—a chart—of top selling or otherwise judged most popular releases. ...

In May 2007, Stevens released a brand new album in Denmark entitled Now Listen.

Discography

UK Releases only

Singles

• "Spirit Of Woodstock" (1970) Parlophone
• "Sweet Little Rock & Roller" (1972) Polydor
• "Honey Honey" (1973) Emerald
• "Jungle Rock" (1976) Mooncrest
• "Never" (1977) Track
• "Somebody Touched Me" (1977) Track
• "Justine" (1978) Track
• "Treat Her Right" (1978) Epic
• "Endless Sleep" (1979) Epic
• "Spooky" (1979) Epic
• "Hot Dog" (1980) Epic (UK #24)
• "Hey Mae" (1980) Epic
• "Marie Marie" (1980) Epic (UK #19, Germany #19, Ireland #28)
• "Shooting Gallery" (1980) Epic
• "This Ole House" (1981) Epic (UK #1, Austria #8, Germany #5, Ireland #1, Switzerland #4)
• "You Drive Me Crazy" (1981) Epic (UK #2, Austria #6, Germany #6, Ireland #1, Switzerland #4, Sweden #9)
• "Green Door" (1981) Epic (UK #1, Austria #8, Germany #6, Ireland #1, Switzerland #5)
• "It's Raining" (1981) Epic (UK #10, Austria #11, Germany #13, Ireland #2)
• "Oh Julie" (1982) Epic (UK #1, Austria #1, Germany #2, Ireland #1, Switzerland #1, Sweden #1)
• "Shirley" (1982) Epic (UK #6, Austria #4, Germany #7, Ireland #4, Switzerland #4, Sweden #3)
• "Give Me Your Heart Tonight" (1982) Epic (UK #11, Austria #10, Germany #6, Ireland #5, Switzerland #6, Sweden #19)
• "I'll Be Satisfied" (1982) Epic (UK #10, Germany #27, Ireland #5)
• "The Shakin' Stevens EP" (1982) Epic (UK #2, Germany #40, Ireland #2)
• "It's Late" (1983) Epic (UK #11, Germany #18, Ireland #3)
• "Cry Just A Little Bit" (1983) Epic (UK #3, Germany #27, Ireland #2 Switzerland #19, US #67)
• "A Rockin' Good Way" (credited to "Shakey and Bonnie", i.e. Shakin' Stevens and Bonnie Tyler)(1984) Epic (UK #5, Austria #9, Germany #22, Ireland #1, Netherlands #8, Norway #4, Sweden #11, Switzerland #10)
• "A Love Worth Waiting For" (1984) Epic (UK #2, Austria #13, Germany #26, Ireland #2)
• "A Letter To You" (1984) Epic (UK #10, Germany #44, Switzerland #21)
• "Teardrops" (1984) Epic (UK #5, Austria #14, Germany #25, Ireland #5)
• "Breaking Up My Heart" (1985) Epic (UK #14, Austria #23, Germany #31, Ireland #7)
• "Lipstick Powder And Paint" (1985) Epic (UK #11, Austria #24, Germany #52, Ireland #11, Switzerland #22)
• "Merry Christmas Everyone" (1985) Epic (UK #1, Germany #75, Ireland #3)
• "Turning Away" (1986) Epic (UK #15, Ireland #11)
• "Because I Love You" (1986) Epic (UK #14, Ireland #13)
• "A Little Boogie Woogie (In the Back of My Mind) (1987) Epic (UK #12, Ireland #9)
• "Come See About Me" (1987) Epic (UK #24, Ireland #15)
• "What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For" (1987) Epic (UK #5, Ireland #8)
• "Feel The Need In Me" (1988) Epic (UK #26, Ireland #17)
• "How Many Tears Can You Hide" (1988) Epic (UK #47)
• "True Love" (1988) Epic (UK #23)
• "Jezebel" (1989) Epic (UK #58)
• "Love Attack" (1989) Epic (UK #28, Ireland #27)
• "I Might" (1990) Epic (UK #18, Austria #26, Ireland #14)
• "Yes I Do" (1990) Epic (UK #60)
• "Pink Champagne" (1990) Epic (UK #59)
• "My Cutie Cutie" (1990) Epic (UK #75)
• "The Best Christmas Of Them All" (1990) Epic (UK #19, Ireland #22)
• "I'll Be Home This Christmas" (1991) Epic (UK #34)
• "Radio" (1992) (credited to Shakin' Stevens and Roger Taylor) Epic (UK #37)
• "Trouble"/"This Ole House" (2005) Sony/BMG (UK #20)
• "Now Listen" (2007) Sony/BMG

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Albums

• A Legend (1970) Parlophone - Released On LP & Cassette Only
• I'm No J.D. (1971) CBS - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• Rockin' And Shakin' (1972) Contour - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• Shakin' Stevens & The Sunsets (1973) Emerald - Released On LP Only
• Play Loud (1978) Track - Released On LP & Cassette
• The Track Years (1979) Media - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• Take One (1980) Epic - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• Marie Marie (1980) Epic - Released On LP & Cassette
• This Ole House (1981) Epic - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• Shaky - Green Door (1981) Epic - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• Hot Dog (1982) Epic - Released On LP & Cassette
• Give Me Your Heart Tonight (1982) Epic - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• The Bop Won't Stop (1983) Epic - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• Greatest Hits (1984) Epic - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• Lipstick Powder And Paint (1985) Epic - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• Let's Boogie (1987) Epic - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• A Whole Lotta Shaky (1988) Epic - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• There's Two Kinds Of Music...Rock And Roll (1990) Telstar - Released On LP,Cassette,CD,VHS
• Merry Christmas Everyone (1991) Epic - Released On LP, Cassette & CD
• The Epic Years (1992) Epic - Released On Cassette, CD, VHS
• The Singles Collection - The A & B Sides (4 CD Set) Sony/BMG - Released 4 CD Set
• The Collection (2005) Sony/BMG - Released On CD & DVD
• Now Listen (2007) Sony/BMG - Released On CD Only

Chart sources

• AT [1]
• CH [2]
• SE [3]
• GER [4]
• FIN [5]
• UK [6]
• Charts All Over World singles sales or airplay [7]
• IE[8]

External links

• Official Site