BABY-FACED heartthrob Tommy Page is back in town, and projecting a rather different image - as a would-be father who is looking forward to the joys of raising a family.
The 26-year-old singer cum songwriter, who gave the world such romantic hits as A Shoulder to Cry On and I'll Be Your Everything , is in Hong Kong on his fourth visit since 1988 to promote his latest offering, Time .
Page, who spends most of his time on the New York music circuit, said he hoped to be married in three or four years' time and looked forward to the experience of being a father.
'I hope to have a son in my first year of marriage. I have in mind a boy who isn't shy, like one of my best friends, Jimmy Prenber, a five-year-old I met when I was performing with a New York choir.
'All the kids in the choir were very shy, but Jimmy was different. He walked straight up to me, shook my hand and said: 'Hi, Tommy. I am Jimmy Prenber. How are you?' ' It is hard to see Page as a family man, the star who has spent six years roaming the showbiz world he entered with his debut album, Tommy Page (1988).
Page has been labelled a teen idol, but he is not as worried about this image as his manager and record company.