# Over the Moon

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- Book: [Over the Moon](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-essex/over-the-moon) ([Over the Moon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-essex/over-the-moon.md))
- Authors: [David Essex](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-essex)
- Publisher: Virgin Books
- ISBN: 978-07-5354-034-3
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2013-02-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

As a young schoolboy, David Essex dreamed of becoming a professional footballer, and was signed up by his beloved West Ham United, but as a teenager he developed a passion for music which set him on a very different path, and ultimately led to superstardom. It wasn't, however, an easy start. Scraping a living on the edges of show business was a hard slog, and he endured many disappointments. Then aged 23, he went along to an audition for a new musical called Godspell and won the role of Jesus that was to shoot him to fame. Within a year he was starring in the smash hit film, That'll Be the Day , and had written and recorded his first number one single 'Rock On'. It was the start of Essex Mania, and a long journey of undreamt of adventure. From Godspell to EastEnders it's been an amazing life. And here is David's full incredible story – in his own words.