A turning point came when his boss suggested he had a choice to make, “Either knuckle down and become an accountant or keep trying to become the next Adam Faith.” Tony Christie’s musical heroes were not Faith and the other rock and rollers, but Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald who he had heard on his father’s collection of 78 records, and just like them he is an interpreter of other people’s songs, and not a recognised songwriter. Tony’s career began in the accounts office of a steel company in Yorkshire, while at the same time he was singing semi-professionally in working men’s clubs in the North of England. Those of us who know better, who appreciate his wonderful voice and his ability to get inside a song, can tell you that over the last 50 years he has recorded a string of great records.
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