Tony Christie (born Anthony Fitzgerald, 25 April 1943) is an English male singer from Conisbrough, South Yorkshire. His mother was English and his father came from Ireland. Career He had two Top Twenty hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1971 with "I Did What I Did For Maria", which reached #2 and "Is This the Way to Amarillo", which peaked at #18. He also had a minor hit with "Avenues & Alleyways" which reached #37, the theme to the television series The Protectors. His early songs were dramatic big-voiced numbers, many of which were written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callendar. He played the role of Magaldi on the original 1976 album recording of the musical Evita, and sought to represent the UK in the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "The Queen of the Mardi Gras" but came third in the national contest to select an entrant, behind eventual contest winners Brotherhood of Man. Although his populari

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