Donovan hopes to swing into charts

7:07pm Sunday 31st August 2008

Jason Donovan has announced his first new album in 15 years.

The ex-Neighbours star's last album, All Around the World, languished at number 27 in the UK charts in 1993.

Since then, Donovan, 40, has enjoyed something of a public comeback after securing third place on jungle-based TV show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

The new album, to be released in November, is inspired by music from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Let It Be Me features new versions of classic songs like Blue Velvet, Love Hurts and Smoke Gets In My Eyes.

The Australian-born star has also reworked his old hit Sealed With a Kiss, and written new track Dreamboats and Petticoats.

Donovan, 40, married his long-time partner Angela Malloch, a stage manager and the mother of his two children, in a ceremony in Bali in June.

The marriage marked a turning point for the singer and former flame of Kylie Minogue, who hit a low when he spent years addicted to cocaine.

Donovan recently appeared alongside Martine McCutcheon in Echo Beach, but the docu-soap was axed by ITV1.