It’s no wonder that Leo Sayer is considered a music business legend.
Forty three years have passed since his first album, and he’s since enjoyed five worldwide No.1 hits and is a Grammy winning songwriter.
Leo’s career started in 1972, when he met David Courtney through an audition in his home city of Brighton.
Leo and David started writing songs together and took these to Adam Faith, who himself had been a pop singing icon the 50’s and 60’s.
Adam saw Leo’s potential immediately and, producing his first albums with David, steered the singer songwriter to almost instant success with 1973’s ‘Silverbird’, Leo’s debut album release.
On the cover Leo was memorably dressed and made up as a white faced Pierrot, singing ‘The Show Must Go On’.
But that wasn’t the first success for the trio of Leo, Adam and David, as a few months earlier they’d masterminded a solo album for The Who’s Roger Daltrey.
This introduced Leo to the world as the writer of “Giving It All Away”, which went straight into the U.S. and U.K. Top Ten.
The same song gave Leo the title for his second album ‘Just A Boy’ which became a major success worldwide with the hit singles ‘Long Tall Glasses’ and ‘One Man Band’ in 1974.
By now, to add to all the success he’d had at home, Leo was visiting the U.S.A., Australia, Europe and the Far East as an international concert headliner. Back home, he released his third album, ‘Another Year’, featuring his third top 5 single ‘Moonlighting’.
“You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” was a rapid U.S. No.1 followed by more chart toppers with “When I Need You” and “How Much Love”, all these from the multi platinum album ‘Endless Flight’. They followed this up with ‘Thunder In My Heart’ including “Thunder In My Heart” and “Easy To Love”, and ‘Leo Sayer’ which had ‘Raining In My Heart’ and ‘I Can’t Stop Loving You (Though I Try)’ as hit singles.
Since moving down-under a decade ago Leo hasn’t stopped working, and still pays frequent visits to the UK and Europe - he's back at The Stables again on May 16...
Tickets are selling like hot cakes, so hurry if you want in.
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