sadly not a city target , but a singer from days when people wore grey scales . He has had a statue built in his honour on Kingston Square - solid Bronze at a cost of £50,000 Ill give it a week before its on the back of a wagon to be melted down for scrap !!!!!
David Whitfield was one of my heartthrobs of my early teenage years and idolised across the full age spectrum by countless female fans in his heyday which covered the early fifties until the rock era engulfed the general music scene.I collected most of his records until Elvis came along. He was the first British male singer to earn a gold disc ( 1 million sales of a single disc) and the first artist from Britain to sell over 1 million copies of one disc in America. Not a lot in today's terms but absolutely enormous in those days. To this day over 50 years on he is still one of only a few artists who have spent 10 or more consecutive weeks at No 1 on the UK Singles chart The only thing I knew about Hull in those days was that he was born there. My father in law sometimes accompanied him at the piano when he sang in Hull clubs postwar often singing without a microphone, such was the power of his voice. On a couple of occasions he came to the house to rehearse and my husband talked about Hull City with him. When he came to Australia in 1980 my husband made arrangements to meet up with him in Sydney during a singing tour but unfortunately he suffered a fatal brain haemorrhage(aged 54) before the meeting. We went to his funeral in Sydney and his ashes were taken back to Hull and I believe scattered somewhere at sea near there. We are going back to Hull in 2015 and a visit to his statue outside of the Hull New Theatre? is already on my bucket list!
Yes that's the one, I used to cycle to Wolfreton School from Anlaby and pass the house on the way, as my friend lived close to where he lived.
