IRISH singer-songwriter Gilbert O’Sullivan will be at the Grand Opera House, in York, on Tuesday, June 16.

Best known for his early 1970’s hits Alone Again (Naturally), Clair and Get Down, the music magazine Record Mirror voted him the number one UK male singer of 1972.

Worldwide Gilbert has charted 16 top 40 records, including six number one songs, the first of which was 1970’s Nothing Rhymed. Such was his popularity in the early 1970s that Matrimony, an airplay and live favourite from his debut album Himself, remains one of his most famous compositions despite never having been a hit single.

In 1980, after a five-year hiatus, he returned to his old record label, CBS. The first single, What’s in a Kiss?, reached number 19 in the UK in 1980 and number 21 in Japan. It was his first UK Top 20 hit in five years.

Apart from the single So What? in 1990 and a compilation album in 1991, Nothing But The Best, Gilbert was absent from the charts until another compilation album, The Berry Vest of Gilbert O’Sullivan, returned him to the UK Top 20 in 2004.

Gilbert has continued to record and perform into the 21st century and enjoys particular acclaim in Japan.

In March 2012, the compilation album Gilbert O’Sullivan: The Very Best Of – A Singer and His Songs entered the UK albums chart at number 12.

To book, phone the box office on 0844 8713024 or go to at atgtickets.com/york