Ex-Five Star Deniece Pearson goes solo - Bognor date - video Dailymotion

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80s singer and Brit Award winner Deniece Pearson, lead singer of pop group Five Star, has released the new single Forever Young as a celebration of 40 years in the music industry.

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00:00 Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor for Sussex Newspapers. Real pleasure

00:06 to speak to Nis Pearson, who is heading our way to mark 40 years in the business now.

00:11 How does that feel? That's a real achievement to have done so much in the business over so long,

00:17 isn't it? Absolutely sweetheart. I think my dad's legacy that he has with Buster Pearson,

00:25 he played on the, like I said, on the Midnight Hour tour with Wilson Pickett and Stedman Decker

00:30 and a lot of 60s artists. And an artist in his own right, he brought all of his

00:36 legacy to our table. So he knew exactly where he was taking five stars. So I think he has

00:44 100% claim in our legacy for 40 years. So the point is you grew up absolutely

00:52 surrounded by music then. You weren't really going to do anything else, were you?

00:55 I wasn't, you know, I was going to become a nurse. I loved biology at school.

01:00 Oh really?

01:01 Yeah, yeah. I used to look at mummy's nursing books and, you know, look at all of the

01:07 remedies and things in her book. So it was either nurse or music.

01:14 How come the music won then? What happened?

01:18 I think that's more of my route. I used to play guitar in assembly. And then he always used to

01:25 bring music home. He used to bring home these huge boxes of vinyls from distributing records.

01:32 And we used to just, you know, look through them and play them. Chris Begale, Randy Crawford,

01:40 Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson and the Jacksons were my favorites. Yeah, yeah. So I think,

01:46 I think things naturally take their natural course. And that's where I think that all came.

01:52 There was pure natural progression when you started playing with the group at the age of 14,

01:57 15. And you're saying a lovely thing, you even needed a note from your head teacher

02:02 to go and perform on TV.

02:03 I did, I did. Yeah, I had to take it to the headmistress to do the Royal Variety and talk

02:13 to the boss.

02:15 There's no way the headmistress was going to say no, was there?

02:17 No.

02:19 And then you did them all, didn't you? Wogan and Russell Harty and Pebble Mill at one.

02:26 That must have been great.

02:28 Yeah. Oh gosh, yeah. It was magnificent. I can't wait to get started again. I know many of those

02:34 programs aren't running anymore, but I mean, I've been doing, yeah, yes. I've been doing

02:43 Breakfast and I've been doing a lot of TV and press and radio right now. And the feeling is

02:48 back again, you know, and I'm loving it. I'm totally loving it and living in the moment.

02:53 Absolutely. And thinking about the next album for next year.

02:58 Yes. Yes. My new album is called Free Queen C and it will be out spring 2024. And free means

03:08 the queen is free and she can see, she's aware, she's connected. And that's what I'm doing. I'm

03:15 working with the energy. Yeah.

03:17 And you're saying the songs are just coming to you, coming down to you.

03:21 They are. Yes, Phil, straight from the heavens. God is great. They're coming straight from the

03:27 heavens, right down into my laptop. I'm sending it out to my guys, my bass, my drums, my keys,

03:34 my guitarist, and they're coming back, my father's coming back and I'm getting it mixed by my mixer

03:38 guy. And strings.

03:40 Sounds like the perfect process. And that will be next year, the album. But in the meantime,

03:45 you're playing a number of dates, including Bognor Regis.

03:48 Yes. And September 30th. Yeah. September 30th, we're doing our 40th anniversary show,

03:56 extended 40th anniversary show at Pisa Express Live in Holborn. So get your tickets. There should

04:05 be a few left. There should be a few left, but it's going to be an amazing night, you guys.

04:10 Brilliant. Well, congratulations on the anniversary and the forthcoming album and the dates.

04:15 Really lovely to speak to you. Thank you for your time.

04:18 You too. Thank you. Thank you for having me, sweetie.

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