Ellesmere Port musical hero Ian Prowse will be bringing his band Amsterdam to Telford’s Warehouse in Chester on Thursday, April 7.

Prowse’s first band Pele released three albums on Polydor/M&G Records. Six singles troubled the lower ends of the UK charts but abroad they scored hits in Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Holland and most notably a number one in South Africa with Megalomania.

Pele were also an acclaimed live act, completing nine tours of the UK.

Ian then formed Amsterdam and their first single for Beat Crazy Records The Journey was a UK top 40 single in February 2005. Follow up single Does This Train Stop On Merseyside also hit the UK charts.

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The song regularly elicited an emotional response from Radio 1 DJ John Peel. Peel’s widow Sheila Ravenscroft went on the station after the DJ’s death and confirmed that ‘he was not capable of playing it without crying’.

The song itself got a further lease of life as one of the centre pieces of Irish legend Christy Moore’s latest album which spent five weeks at the top spot in his home country.

Ian also has a long standing friendship with Elvis Costello who used Amsterdam as his backing band on the Jonathan Ross television show as well as opening act on several occasions.

The relationship was blessed on record when Prowse performed a duet with Costello on a cover of The Searchers 1964 hit Don’t Throw Your Love Away for the Liverpool Number Ones Project on EMI Records in 2008.

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The last Amsterdam album Arm in Arm ended up being voted 14th best ever album out of Liverpool by the local press. Lead off single Home was played on 21 consecutive days by Radio 2′s Janice Long. Janice is a huge fan of the band having had them in no less than four times for live sessions.

2012 saw Ian release Does This Train Stop On Merseyside: The Very Best of Ian Prowse to across the board rave reviews and 2014 saw Ian release his very first solo album Whe Loves Ya Baby with second solo album Companeros hot on its heels in 2015.

Tickets for the April 7 gig cost £10. Call 01244 390 090 or visit www.telfordswarehouse.com.