Some local friends were playing at night in bands and he joined them, now singing as well as playing the harmonica. He flung himself into music and started writing songs, setting some of his old poems to music. He gradually built up a band of mates that called itself Patches. Patches started playing gigs all over the south coast.
Leo, still known as Gerry at the time, had decided what he wanted to do with his life. It was now and he was 22 years old. A local Brighton newspaper, The Evening Argus, ran a small box advert for a talent contest. Patches featuring Gerry Sayer vocals and harmonica won the audition. It turned out that David Courtney was not just a promoter. So began what would turn out to be a remarkable creative partnership.
The session was exciting as rock band The Who were recording next door and wanting to meet Adam, added their input to the session.
Things were happening fast. Leo had a girlfriend at the time, Janice. They arranged to get married in Brighton. Patches disbanded, with only Max Chetwynd, guitarist, staying on. But before the project was complete an interesting opportunity suddenly arose for the team.
Roger Daltrey had so much liked the songs Leo and David had written that he asked them to write some for his first solo album. The boys had by now created a large backlog of material and gave Roger songs that they had intended for the next Leo Sayer album.
Chrysalis Records in the U. Roger Daltrey had a cousin, Graham Hughes, who was a well-respected photographer. What had inspired Leo was the presence amongst the models in the shoot of Belgian mime artist Julien in the guise of Pierrot the clown. Leo had found an image that he felt went with his songs, and Graham, Julien and make — up artist Kirsty Climo set about creating the look for Leo.
Graham shot the cover with Leo portrayed as himself on the front, and dressed as the Pierrot on the back. Leo was on the road continually at this point with Adam always present guiding his young charge. One night on the way back from a gig, Adam had a near fatal car crash. The album was released in the U. Leo came on the show dressed as the Pierrot and such was the reaction to his performance, the entire business noted that a new star was born.
Leo went on a British and European tour supporting Roxy Music, now appearing on stage dressed as the Pierrot His wife Janice made the costumes and applied his make up, and they were quite inseparable. The B. In the U. They had seen Leo on British television dressed as Pierrot and dressed up as circus clowns on U.
This first U. The U. Sayer has been diagnosed with Irritable bowel syndrome, and underwent colonoscopy in , after having suffered stomach and bowel problems for an extended period of time. The examination revealed the edge of a tumour, which was excised following a two-and-a-half-hour surgery.
The doctor had identified two ulcers in the singer's intestine, one of which had become cancerous. The doctor explained that had Sayer waited any longer, the cancer would have posed a serious danger. Sayer has, since the procedure, changed his dietary lifestyle and avoids alcohol, caffeine and foods containing spicy ingredients—another reason being that both his parents had died of cancer, his mother of bowel cancer and his father of lung cancer.
Biography Lists News Also Viewed. Leo Sayer. The basics. The details from wikipedia. Sayer performing on Dutch television in Artist Singer Songwriter.
It was his first appearance in the UK Top 10 for almost 24 years, and his second UK chart-topper, almost three decades after his first. This album, produced by Garth Porter from the Australian pop bandSherbet , and released by Universal Music Australia, featured selections from his catalog in an entirely new setting, re-arranged with strings and acoustic and jazz instrumentation.
In the episode "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" of the television series The Simpsons , a character mentions Sayer as being another singer he likes, after Elvis Presley. In January , Sayer released his latest album, Restless Years , [10] and toured from Perth across many places in Australia to Singapore, with various support acts including Jason Ayres.
Sayer married his wife Janice in and they remained married until their divorce in Pop Culture Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. The single peaked at number two and when the songwriter performed it on British TV, he wore a pierrot costume and make-up. His songs have been covered by other legendary singers including Sir Cliff Richard who he co-wrote the iconic hit Dreaming with. The peak of the star's career was in when he bagged two consecutive number one hits in the US.
Sayer went on to make a name for himself on reality TV when he entered the Celebrity Big Brother house in , which featured the controversial scenes between the late Jade Goody and Indian actress Shilpa Shetty.
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