“In those days, record companies built careers,” says Nik Kershaw when he’s reminded that his first single, I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me, initially failed to break the Top 40. “That’s just the ...

Nik Kershaw grew up in the relatively showbiz-bereft Ipswich, singing and playing guitar in a number of local bands. Nik Kershaw released a string of singles through the mid-1980s, after gaining ...

A string of global hits – including ‘Wouldn’t it Be Good’, ‘The Riddle’ and ‘I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ – saw him spend an astonishing 62 weeks on the UK singles chart through 1984 and 1985.