Contactmusic.com report that David Essex, a motorbike enthuisiast, plans to man up and ride a daredevil stunt in his West End musical. This is off contact:
"currently starring in the stage musical All the Fun of the Fair, which is based on his 1975 album of the same name and is set in a travelling fairground.
The impressive production features a full-size Wall of Death – a vertical cylinder in which motorcycle stuntmen perform gravity-defying high-speed rides – and Essex can't wait to try it out for himself.
He tells British TV show Daybreak, "The Wall of Death features in the show… I'm going to do it. I know a few of the guys (who do it). I think there are only two travelling Wall of Deaths left, and when I haven't got anything to do – in case I break something – I will have a go.
"I think once you are up you're fine, and once you are down you are fine, because the centrifugal force obviously keeps you up there. It's supposed to be like an endless road. You have to get the right speed, but it's (difficult) getting up and coming down."
Now why do you care? Well… unless you were a kid in the 1970s and living in England maybe you don't so much but I sure do. With his first three albums, Essex was a teen pin-up for the girls and a bbudding rock star for the rest, who brought heavy production to his live shows and starred in one of the great rock movies "That'll Be The day" with Ringo Starr and one that wasn't, its follow up "Stardust".
In the States he had a hit with "Rock On" but that was about it.
Good luck on the wall of Death, David.
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