Oh, and a really good moment in my life was going to Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues club in Soho with a number of members of Seagulls Over London around 20 plus years ago and were all sat a table, friend goes to the bar and a guy comes in with a girl and takes the vacated seat...it’s Joe Strummer. We obviously can’t tell him the seat is taken so we spend the next hour or so with him. Absolutely lovely guy, offered to buy drinks, spoke to us for ages ...to the point where we were a little concerned we were intruding on his night....every time we eased off the conversation he would restart it.
[MENTION=24354]Cesar Chavez[/MENTION] was there I think.
Occasionally Mark McGhee sits directly next to me at the Amex, saw Nzuzi Toko outside the regency fish restaurant once and Prince Andrew once came and observed my lecture at university in Huddersfield.
Rupert Webb passed away a couple of years ago, lovely man. Was a neighbour of mine. His wife once went out with Elvis.
I was in the same train carriage as Patrick Moore.
There was a kid , about 8 years old running up down the aisle , shouting, and generally being obnoxious. His Mummy was doing nothing to stop him, “oh, Quentin, please sit down, “ that type of thing.
As the kid ran past Patrick Moore, he surreptitiously put his foot out and tripped the kid up. Quentin landed with a bang, Mummy picked him up and sat him on the seat, and Patrick Moore, realising that I had seen him trip Quentin, gave me a sly little smile.
There wasn’t another peep out of Quentin for the rest of the journey.
Dave BensonPhillips used to be a regular in my cafe , a few years ago.
Nice fella.
Another customer was the Reverend Ian Paisley . He used to holiday somewhere local and would call in occasionally for afternoon tea.
Always had a couple of wardrobe sized minders with him, but, I was surprised that he was quite small. When I’ve seen him on the telly he had always looked like a unit.
A well known party girl was Peaches allegedly. I once met Suzi Quatro at the Intercontinental Hotel in Hamburg in 1973. I was going down to reception in the lift when it stopped enroute, and the rock superstar plus her minder stepped in to join me. Clad in a long fur coat she looked absolutely tiny!
As an immature star struck17 year old l was completely tongue tied, all l could blurt out was, hey you are Suzi Quatro aren't you! Yeah she replied, and thinking of nothing else to say we decended in silence to the ground floor. What a missed opportunity, all the things l could have asked her!
I had a piss standing in the next urinal to Ian Paisley (sr) in a HoC bog, and he was certainly a unit. A quick google says he was apparently 6’5”. I’d guess he was 18 stone.
Have I been whooshed?
I had a piss standing in the next urinal to Ian Paisley (sr) in a HoC bog, and he was certainly a unit. A quick google says he was apparently 6’5”. I’d guess he was 18 stone.
Have I been whooshed?
I had a piss standing in the next urinal to Ian Paisley (sr) in a HoC bog, and he was certainly a unit. A quick google says he was apparently 6’5”. I’d guess he was 18 stone.
Have I been whooshed?
I was in a queue with Steve Davis in a Smiths in Cardiff. Interesting guy.
Last February I was on holiday in the Maldives and my next door neighbor was Howard Donald from Take That. I'm by no means a member of Mensa, but I'm certain he had nothing between his ears!
I last saw him on the train back from the C&G Trophy win in 2006. As you say he was a lovely guy, as was his wife the couple of times I met her. Didn't find out about the Elvis story until recently. Didn't he propose to her?