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Hold Me Close

1975 single by David Essex

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ5879175 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Hold Me Close" is a pop song written and performed by English singer and actor David Essex.

The song was released in September 1975 and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, where it remained for three weeks.

Song profile

"Hold Me Close" is a love song written by Essex and produced by Jeff Wayne. It was Essex's second and final UK chart-topper. The B-side was titled "Good Ol' Rock and Roll" (live version). The song appears on the album All the Fun of the Fair, and is featured in the musical of that name.

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The public source identifies “Hold Me Close” as 1975 single by David Essex. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hold, Close and single.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-09. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hold, Close and single providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5879175. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hold Me Close” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.