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Former X Factor winner Steve Brookstein, 55, looks completely unrecognisable as he performs to small crowd in a Northumberland pub
Local punters at a small Northumberland pub were given a musical treat on Saturday evening as they settled down for a quiet, end-of-the-week pint.
His first single, a cover version of the Phil Collins hit Against All Odds, suggested he might live up to that billing by soaring to number one in the United Kingdom, but it wasn't long before his career started to stall. His subsequent debut album, Heart And Soul, reached number one with UK sales of 105,338, but a second single was not forthcoming and Brookstein was eventually dropped by his label, Sony BMG. He played at Esher Theatre in Surrey on Valentine's Day alongside 90s boyband East 17 - the current line up of which only includes only one of the group's original members, Terry Coldwell.
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