A STAPLE of the music industry for five decades, singer, bass player and songwriter Merrill Osmond is quite simply an icon with a global resonance.
As the frontman of one of the world’s most famous bands, the Osmonds, the now 68-year-old performer truly shot to fame in the 1970s.
But prior to the group’s somewhat stratospheric rise, Merrill enjoyed several years as a child star, appearing on television shows boasting enormous audiences.
Since then he has composed and produced five number one singles, performed on 27 gold records, and sold more than 100million records worldwide.
One of the very few things Merrill has never done, however, is visit or bask in the coastal wonders of Clacton – something he hopes to do later this year.