Will Young
Will Young
William Robert "Will" Youngis an English singer-songwriter and actor who came to prominence after winning the 2002 inaugural series of the British music contest Pop Idol, making him the first winner of the worldwide Idol franchise. His double A-sided debut single "Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen" was released two weeks after the show's finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in fifth place in World Idol performing his single "Light My Fire"...
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth20 January 1979
CityWokingham, England
When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
Nothing but what astonishes is true.
Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.
Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.
Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.