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Gilbert O'Sullivan

Dressed in his early days as a quintessential schoolboy in cap, short trousers, pudding bowl haircut and toothy smile, Gilbert O'Sullivan was an odd addition to the UK's pop scene of the early 1970s. Yet the eccentric image belied a very real talent for writing wittily catchy pop hits, characterised by his clear vocals and piano arrangements. Born in Waterford, Ireland on 1 December 1946, but mostly raised in the English town of Swindon, Raymond Edward O'Sullivan's music career began as a drummer with Rick's Blues, formed by Rick Davies, later of Supertramp, and it was Rick Davie...