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leo sayer - More Than I Can Say 1980 video

Good quality video singing live on Top Of The Pops 1980. Leo Sayer (born Gerard Hugh Sayer 1948) Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex is a Grammy Award Winning British singer-songwriter, musician and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. Sayer became a naturalised Australian citizen in 2009. Sayer was a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s. His first seven hit singles in the UK all reached the Top 10 -- a feat first registered by his one-time manager, Adam Faith. A consistently successful artist, from his first hit with "The Show Must Go On" in 1973 to the present day, Sayer has never been missing from the charts for longer than five successive years. Sayer began his music career co-writing songs with David Courtney, including "Giving It All Away", which gave Roger Daltrey of The Who his first hit without The Who in 1973. That same year, Sayer began his career as a recording artist. At the time of his initial chart breakthrough in the UK, with his second single "The Show Must Go On", he wore a pierrot style costume and make-up and the song shot up to number two. Sayer followed up with hit after hit.[1] He had subsequent single hits with "One Man Band" (1974), "Long Tall Glasses" (1975) and "Moonlighting" (1975). In 1976, Sayer recorded three Beatles songs, "I Am the Walrus", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" for the film, All This and World War II. In 1977, he had a US number one with "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (a ...

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