One of the most pleasing but now underrated of the many MOR heartthrob vocalists who assaulted the U. He made his professional singing debut at a local pub in , at age 15, but it was not until he was called up for National Service compulsory military duty in the mid-'50s that he decided to move into full-time performing.
He sang with the Royal Corps of Signals band and, following his return to civilian life, he toured Britain in the musical Floradora. Moving to London, Hill was recruited to Teddy Foster's big band, but turned to pop in when he joined the Raindrops, a vocal group that also featured Jackie Lee and Johnny Worth.
Both would go on to considerable success, Lee with the hit singles "White Horses" and "Rupert the Bear" and Worth under the pseudonym Les Vandyke as a songwriter. Hill's own success started immediately after he quit the Raindrops, when "The River's Run Dry" proved a minor hit in summer He was unlucky not to triumph in the U.
Hill's biggest-ever hit arrived in , when a version of the Sound of Music chestnut "Edelweiss" rose to number two.
Despite this, Hill remained a regular guest on British TV through the s, and continued to perform live for many years. Sign In. Vince accepts that he has, to an extent, been lucky. He can still see the faces of his grandchildren — now aged 21 and nine — if they are close enough.
I can walk, stand up, all of that. His eyesight has deteriorated to such an extent that, just five months ago, he was officially registered as partially sighted. Vince wears glasses with an opaque lens on his worst-seeing right eye to force the left eye to do all the work. The loss of his sight comes on top of several years of heartache for the singer. His only son, Athol, died suddenly aged 42 of an accidental overdose in , and his beloved wife Annie, whom he married in , died following a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis three years later.
Vince has sought support from charity the Macular Society, which has provided telephone counselling. As I was sitting down with a cup of tea, I felt this hand on my shoulder and it was Eamonn. I was so knocked out by it. It was a great moment.
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