Chris Needs MBE

CHRIS NEEDS' 40 YEARS IN SHOWBUSINESS CELEBRATION CD Chris' New Album "LOVE IS ALL" out now! To purchase click below £6.99 & £2 p&p----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- CHRIS NEEDS' ALBUM "MY FOOLISH HEART" click below 2 purchase. ----------------------------I made this myspace background at ------------------------------------------------------------ - new duet with STEVE BALSAMO from MY FOOLISH HEART online now ------------- Duet ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM great 50's track with the outstanding STEVE BALSAMO now available to hear and purchase on Chris's MYSPACE SITE. From the album MY FOOLISH HEART as heard on BBC RADIO with fantastic song's such as I BELIEVE IN YOU made famous by IL DIVO & CELINE DION , I AM WHAT I AM the DOROTHY SQUIRES ANTHEM, JOE GESS from the musical THE CONTENDER the life story of TOMMY FARR written by MAL POPE, ALL THE WAY made famous by FRANK SINTRA & the title track MY FOOLISH HEART. CLICK on the BUY NOW BUTTON to purchase this fantastic new release. ---------------------PURCHASE CHRIS' AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY GOING TO www.ylolfa.com---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ------------- Chris Needs - M.B.E. Radio Presenter and actor, Stage performer and piano teacher. Compere and figurehead of a registered charity. School music teacher and accomplished classical pianist. Raconteur and award-winning show business personality. Among his friends he numbers both world-renowned stars and the ordinary person alike, and is a real friend to the thousands of his BBC Radio Wales listeners who tune in to his show every week night, or are among the 40,000+ members of the 'Chris Needs Friendly Garden'. Since first getting a lift in Richard Burton's car while a youngster (Chris lived in Cwmafan, the next village to Burton's birthplace of Pontrhydyfen near Port Talbot), He took the plunge himself and entered show business as a keyboard player - at one time accompanying Bonnie Tyler (who's also a regular listener to Chris' shows).When Welsh Language TV Soap 'Pobol y Cwm' needed an actor to play the part of a hairdresser, Chris decided he fitted the bill and was invited to audition. In a 1995 interview, he told 'The Western Mail' newspaper, "I went up thinking I was well in for the part of the hairdresser and camped it up - but for some strange reason I ended up with the part of a detective sergeant!"He entered the world of radio broadcasting when he heard on the grapevine that the then newly-formed Touch AM Radio Station needed new presenters. Having made a demo tape in his front room, using a ghetto blaster with "disgusting sound quality", he sent it in to the station.The rest is history - he became Touch AM's most popular presenter and moved a few years ago to BBC Radio Wales. Having hosted an immensely popular afternoon show, he has now moved to present the late show, and has single-handedly taken his slot to the top.In the 2005 New Years Honours List, he was announced as M.B.E. for his services to broadcasting and Charity in Wales, and he was invested into the Order by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on June 22nd, 2005.