Michael Barratt (born 4 March 1948), known as Shakin' Stevens, is a platinum-selling Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter who was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s.
I know Wikipedia isn't always the most reliable of sources....that can't really be true...can it??
Not sure why, but I've always had the slight impression that the Welsh Elvis might, underneath the public facade, be a bit of a knob. There may or may not be evidence to support this theory out there.