Article: That 'gorgeous blond blue-eyed guy' image. That was all bulls**t; Giving it some stick: David with fellow maestro contestants Jane Asher and Peter Snow get some advice on baton wielding from conductor Sir Nigel Norrington Seventies icons: Soul and Paul Michael Glaser in Starsky and Hutch Going native: Soul has lived in north London for years and in 2004 became a British citizen.

Byline: ALISON ROBERTS

David Soul is about to battle it out on TV with other celebrities to find the best classical conductor, and he's glad finally to have escaped his heart-throb status

I MEET David Soul in the dimly lit basement room of a Cuban-themed bar in Soho, which, were it not for the clean-cut French waiters and the smoking ban, might easily pass as a nightclub set from Starsky and Hutch, the California-based cop show that made Soul globally famous in the 1970s. There is something mildly illicit about the venue, which he has chosen: it's 4.30pm and a sunny day outside, but we're indoors, underground in a windowless room. Soul is drinking white wine and ...

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