Shakin' Stevens

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Michael Barratt (born 4 March 1948) also known as Shakin' Stevens, is a Welsh singer and songwriter.

He was the best-selling singles artist of the 1980s in the United Kingdom.

His recording and performing career began in the late 1960s, but it wasn't until 1980 that his commercial success began.

His most popular songs were nostalgia hits, eliciting the sounds of 1950s rock and roll and pop.

Stevens has charted 33 Top 40 hits singles in the United Kingdom alone, including four chart-toppers "This Ole House," "Green Door," "Oh Julie," and "Merry Christmas Everyone"; his last Top 40 hit single, "Undercover" re-entered the UK Top 75 chart each December since 2007.

Early life

Michael Barratt, the youngest of 11 children born to Jack and May Barratt, would later adopt the stage name "Shakin' Stevens." His father was a war veteran who worked in building trade by 1948, having previously worked as a coal miner. The oldest of his siblings was born in the mid-1920s, and by the time of his birth, several of Michael Barratt's oldest siblings had already married and started families of their own. Jack Barratt died in 1972 at the age of 75. May Barratt died in 1984 at the age of 83.

He grew up in Ely, Cardiff, and as an adult, he formed his first amateur rock and roll band with school classmates in the mid-1960s and became its vocalist and frontman. Originally named the Olympics and then the Cossacks, the short-lived band was renamed as the Denims and appeared on stage in Cardiff and South Wales. Stevens was associated with the Young Communist League (YCL), the Communist Party's youth section of the United Kingdom, in the late 1960s, by participating in YCL activities. Several influential music industry executives, including Pete Townshend, were associated with the YCL at the time. Stevens has argued that this was because the individual in charge of booking the band's gigs was also a member of the company.

His formal occupation was a milkman, and he lived in a flat that became part of an office block in inner-city Cardiff in the late 1960s. Several years later, the office building was demolished.

Personal life

Stevens married Carole Dunn in October 1967 and divorced in 2009 after 42 years of marriage. They had three children together: two sons, Jason and Dean, and a daughter, Paula. Stevens and his wife Sue Davies began a relationship after his divorce, and he thanks her for his life after he suffered a heart attack in July 2010.

Stevens lives in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. He has been a lifelong fan of Welsh football team Cardiff City.

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