The runaway winner of the American Idol TV series in 2008, David Cook went on to
create US chart history with a record-breaking 11 songs breaking into the Hot
100 in the same week, the most successful of them The Time Of My Life reaching
Number 3. The Texan had already released one grunge-influenced album Analog
Heart in 2006 before he appeared on American Idol having been given his first
Fender Stratocaster guitar when he was 12 and gone on to appear in various
school musicals. Cook abandoned a potential career as a baseball player after a
serious injury to concentrate on music,...