DAVID ESSEX - ESSEX REFUSES TO GROW OLD

ESSEX REFUSES TO GROW OLD

British crooner DAVID ESSEX is so terrified of getting old, he refuses to acknowledge his birthday. The singer, 60, still thinks of himself as a young man and has trouble accepting his advancing years. He says, "Inside, I feel about 23. My 60th birthday fell on the day we started rehearsals for (revamped Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber musical) Aspects of Love. "All these cards kept arriving and I couldn't understand it. 'Who are all these cards for?' I kept asking myself."