Des O’Connor may famously have been the butt of his Morecambe and Wise’s jokes, but it was Des who ended up having the last laugh.
Back in 1964 Des told Eric that he wanted to be an international star. Eric replied: “Well, I’d like to have an affair with Brigitte Bardot but we can’t have everything we want, can we?” How wrong could Eric have been?
Des went on to record a staggering 36 albums, sell 16m records worldwide and created a TV career, on shows like Des O’Connor Tonight, Take Your Pick, Today with Des and Mel and Countdown, spanning seven decades which saw him become one of the world’s best-loved stars performing everywhere from Las Vegas to Sydney Opera House and gracing the stage of the London Palladium more than 1,000 times.
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