David Essex: The Busy Mr Essex
Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1974
MR ESSEX, I Presume? One could be forgiven for asking the question because, caught unawares in his dressing room for the 45 show, he looks more as if he's just stepped out of the jungle rather than out of a shower of Stardust.
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