70's Popstar Hits Hard Times
A special report from Chief Editor, Jonathan David Abraham
Ex-Superstar David Sussex captured by an amateur
photographer mixing concrete, too poor to buy working boots, he has to cover
his feet with two old bin bags
Fans of 1970's heart-throb and pop superstar David Sussex will be saddened and appalled to read of his fall from multi-millionaire grace. The singer whose hits included such classic number ones as 'Rock Off' and 'Lamp Post' had also pursued a successful stage career in the 1980's.
A series of disastrous property investments in the early 1990's robbed him of practically all of his fortune, thought at the time to be of the order of tens of millions of pounds. Even the sale of his twenty-two bedroom mansion in Henley-On-Thames could not save him from bankruptcy and he now lives alone in a one-bedroom bed-sit in Crouch End.
He has made several come-back attempts, even financing his last album, 'Chelsea Boy', himself in 1998. Regrettably, poor sales of approximately twelve copies wiped out the last of his fortune. Luckily an old school friend with his own building company was able to offer the fallen star some casual labouring work.
Pathetically, he also makes a small amount of extra money by busking his old hits to train passengers on the busy London to Cardiff main line every other Saturday.
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In a totally unrelated event, friends of missing Bridgend Builder, David Oakley, will be delighted to hear that after three months he has finally been sighted. A regular of the Five Bells Inn spotted him appearing in a production of the musical 'Mutiny' in London's busy West End.