David Essex - Out On The Street 1976 

without doubt his finest album,shows he's not just a pop singer,shame more people haven't heard this album

Thank You for posting, Essex came onto the music scene when the talent was vastly competitive. His music is in no way commercialized, I appreciate his musical direction here.

I was 5yrs old sitting on my Mums shoulders in the Apollo Glasgow when I first saw David live, my Mum and I walked home up Maryhill Rd with our bag of chips and my Granny told my Mum off for having me up so late, I never slept a wink that night as I was so high from the concert,I bought all of David's albums and I was a big fan. 5yrs later I got a bad fever and was given the last rights, to everyone's surprise I woke up the next day, I don't remember much about it except having a long dream where I kicked Bruce Mcbride's ass all over Silverstone. After I got home for a few days a special letter arrived for me, It was huge, when I opened it there was a poster inside of David on the Silver Dream Racer, he signed it and said, " To my special little champion Stuart, Rock On" , you just don't forget things like that in life, thanks David, you made a little guy feel on top of the world.

Probably his best album along with gold and ivory. Shame many people have not heard it and only associate him with being a pin up for teenagers and hold me close. Rock on is a classic track and should be spoken about in the same way other classic 70s singles are. It never dates as it was so different from anything else around. Mr Essex is truly a national treasure.

yes great album, one of my fav's, another side of the very talented david essex

Brilliant Album. Grossly underated!

Still got the album out in my garage ,I remember playing this album for months on end ,such an atmospheric album,brilliant from David

been trying for years to find these tracks again thanks for putting them on steve ..havent heard them in years ..what memories all this brings back ,

I've known David Essex through this album, and it's to me pretty good. Too bad people don't know more about this one album..

i am using my husbands page and he will probably not be too impressed that i have liked this and am contributing this post. I was 12 years old when "out on the street" came out and my sister and I and just been given tape/radio recorders , I can remember playing this over and over until the tape stretched. Technology certainly has it's benefits. Check out 'Street fight', 'Lamplight 'and 'Rock on', Early 70's stuff. Sxx

Great album. True 70's style.

4:55 awesome,one of rocks great hidden gems this song at 10 minutes its epic

Wow my tears flow I was a kid loved this..ty

still got all my original vinyl David Essex albums x

Absolutely love this album.

I think this album should be made into a musical

An absolute epic.

i sooo love this album!! i feel it would make a fab play too!!

have followed David right from the early 70's, bought all the early albums as soon as they hit the shops and then took them home and played them non stop. LOVED this one, think it showed that he wasn't just a pretty face, thanks for posting it.

Great song,What a Brilliant Album , so many different types of songs, a couple of chart hits as well , one of my fav tracks is called Thank you very much, but cant seem to find it anywhere on here, I still have most of his albums up till mid eighties, I might look it out and ask son to upload it lol

Just about wore the album out I played it so much..Thanx for the remind....Luved him ....

Because DE was very much sold as a pop star this album never got the recognition it deserved. This track deals with prostitution and very much the seedy low life. A very underrated album.

The whole album is gorgeous...I will ask myself again and again which are the reasons for such an unrated performance... :-(

my first album

Still play it

I would love thank you very much for the love you give me,

Whilst 'All The Fun Of The Fair' must have sold a lot more copies, in my experience more fans say 'Out On The Street' is their favourite DE album than any other.

Yes dad.

Wish I could here the full album drew the album cover back when I was a teen

Looking for a decent copy of the album version of City Lights

I see the album is no longer available

still today

I think his good looks went against him as a credible artist. His earlier stuff, plus this album was less commercial and much better for it. His version of Stay With Me Baby is brilliant, very underrated at the time

comes across like an end-of-year school project of the day. pretty bad!