Mark Holden

Mark Holden
Mark Holden
Birth name	Mark Ronald Holden
Born	27 April 1954 (age 70); Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Genres	Pop, rock
Occupations	Singer; songwriter; record producer; musician; actor; television personality; barrister;
Instrument	Vocals
Years active	1974–present
Labels	EMI Music; Scotti Brothers Records; Casablanca Records; Sony Music Australia;

Mark Ronald Holden (born 27 April 1954) is an Australian singer, actor, TV personality, record producer, songwriter, and barrister. He was a pop star in the 1970s and had four top 20 hit singles, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" (May 1976), "I Wanna Make You My Lady" (September), "Last Romance" (November) and "Reach Out for the One Who Loves You" (October 1977). Holden regularly appeared on national pop music show, Countdown. Holden is remembered for his clean-cut image, his white dinner suit and his penchant for handing out carnations to girls on the set of the popular television show Countdown – he was nicknamed "The Carnation Kid".^[1]^[2] In the 1980s he worked as a songwriter in Los Angeles providing material recorded by Meat Loaf, Joe Cocker, Gladys Knight, Bob Welch and Steve Jones. He was one of three original judges on the television series Australian Idol (2003–07) and the first season (2005) of The X Factor. In 2023, Holden voiced "The Old Man" in the narrative video game RoboCop: Rogue City.

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