EIGHTIES' soul crooner Paul Young will perform his most successful album, No Parlez, to mark its 35th anniversary on a tour that will visit York Barbican on May 30 at 8pm.

His debut solo long player topped the British charts for five weeks en route to triple platinum sales and featured his first number one single, a cover of Marvin Gaye's Wherever I Lay My Hat, alongside Come Back And Stay, Love Of The Common People and Young's interpretation of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart.

Young had fronted Kat Kool & The Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, enjoying a novelty hit with Streetband's Toast in 1979, before turning solo in the Eighties. His career took off with No Parlez and momentum was maintained with such hits as Everytime You Go Away and Everything Must Change.

Young won a BRIT Award for Best Male Vocalist, sung the opening lines on the original Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas? in 1984 and performed at Live Aid in July 1985.

Now 63, he is a keen chef, biker and fan of all things Mexicana, not least touring with his Tex-Mex/Americana band Los Pacaminos, who played Pocklington Arts Centre in November 2007.

Tickets for Young's 35 Years Of No Parlez concert are on sale at £23.15 to £48.50 on 0844 854 2757, at yorkbarbican.co.uk or in person from the Barbican box office.