One of the most enduringly successful artists of the late 20th century, Paul
Anka first gained international fame as one of the world's biggest pop idols of
the late 1950s/early 1960s before reinventing himself as a family entertainer in
Las Vegas; and then finding further commercial success with more adult material
in the 1970s. The son of Lebanese immigrants who ran a restaurant in Canada,
Anka was 14 when he released his first single I Confess prompting a move to New
York and instant fame with the dramatic and passionate US Number 1 single Diana.
Unusually for the time he wrot...