Des O’Connor is firmly established as one of Britain’s most popular and best loved entertainers. He was awarded the CBE in the 2008 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his
services to Entertainment and Broadcasting. Since landing his first television series in the UK in 1963 he starred in his own mainstream television show for over 45 years – longer than anyone anywhere in the world.
He is one of only a handful of British entertainers to be acclaimed internationally on stage and television: when he was given an American series of his show it went out to over 40 countries and was seen by 200 million people world-wide. On stage he has starred at the MGM Grand Las Vegas, the Sydney Opera House, The O’Keefe Centre, Toronto and made over 1000 solo appearances at the London Palladium.
Since 1967 he has been a hugely successful recording star. He had his first hit single with Careless Hands, followed by I Pretend which went to No 1. Since then his recording career has produced 36 albums with sales of over 16 million and he has spent 117 weeks in the top ten charts.
His current album, titled Inspired, comprises 18 brand new songs, co-written by Des and the brilliant Alan Hawkshaw who has worked with Elvis and Barbra Streisand.
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