Just seen Robert Fripp and Toyah this morning. They live near us. A smile and a nod normally gets a similar return, but I would never bug them.
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Living in Buckingham the late Bernie Marsden is our most famous son. Met him several times including local gigs in the town hall, my daughter was at school with his daughter, no “daddy’s a rock star” stuff, a truly nice guy with lovely family.
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He probably didn’t want to talk about it.
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Amazing to think how many I’d forgotten.
Stood at a urinal at Leeds Warehouse pre gig on the first Long Ryders tour. Bloke stood next to me is Sid Griffin. I am a level of drunk that likely makes me problematic.
“Fu€@in hell dude. You don’t half look like Roger McGuinn.”
Oops.
Years later Sid and I DM’d on Twitter, exchanged email addresses and I was happy to share photos from that very gig.
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Wandered into Manchester regularly for breakfast on the weekend. Went to the long since defunct Nicky’s at the side of what used to be Kendals. Fantastic bacon barm. Often did the odd lunch there too. She was Fred Done’s daughter. Daddy funded his little girls vanity project. It was excellent.
Watched as Barbara Knox, Sally Whittaker and Liz Dawn came in on a break from recording over at Granada Studios. Two of the three well known locally as club singers.
Nicky’s often had a queue out of the door. Knox marched the three of them past the queue and ignored the people paying at the till. She demanded service quickly because they were in a hurry. To our horror that’s exactly what happened. Next time we were then when it unfolded myself and another bloke objected. Nicky tried to defend them and Knox stepped in with “Don’t you know who I am?”
The other bloke beat me to the punch and said “It’s exactly because I know who you are you’ll put your outsized ego in a box, get to the back of the queue or f£@k off somewhere else.” Turned to Nicky Done and said “We keep you afloat not them.” Knox was genuinely outraged. Stormed off. Silence befell the queue before one person nervously laughed before the other bloke got a small round of applause.
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10-15 years ago I was in the same queue for hire cars at Pisa airport as Bryan Ferry. He looked rather p*ssed off having to queue with us plebs
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I’ve no idea who any of these people are, but it’s a good story.
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1990s Coronation Street. Fred Done is a bookmaker.
I didn’t watch it either but if you lived in Manchester they were unavoidable. Liz Dawn also owned the Albert Park pub opposite from Albert Park in Salford where I used to play football on a Tuesday night.
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Not my story but a good one…an old friend who is a huge Peter Gabriel fan was flying out from Heathrow to see the opening night of a Gabriel tour in Germany. He was sat on the plane with an empty seat next to him when somebody he very much recognised came and sat next to him, introducing himself saying “hello, I’m Peter”!
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Knox was well known as some sort of wannabe diva.
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Come on, you can’t just casually throw in “went shopping with Kate Bush …..” without a bit more detail, please !!
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well, it’s all in the details….I was indeed shopping in the megastore, head down and concentrating, wondering what I would spend a couple of pounds on.
Then I looked up and Kate was indeed shopping in the same store at the same time, standing next to me….piling numerous records into a trolley.
I was too shy to say anything, but there we were buying records together…..
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When doing the rounds of university selection had Carol Decker with her daughter in front of us.
Bettered by being in Langans, round from green park and Ron Perlman sat on his own eating dinner on next table, just nodded. Much smaller than you expect him to be. Think he was lead at the time in and Arthur Miller play.
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Jim and William Reid (JAMC) in Hackney, Stoke Newington Common in the 80’s (they lived nearby for a while).
They were looking suitably dourly unapproachable! Must as I loved the band, I didn’t intrude.
Served quite a few very well-known musicians/DJ’s/actors/news journalists at work: the majority lovely and very friendly - some, er…perfunctory.
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I once saw Petula Clark on Oxford St., buying shoes for her child (or possibly grandchild). Didn’t seem to be in great form.
“Things will be great when you’re downtown.”
Not that day they weren’t.
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I once saw Victoria Beckham with an entourage going into a posh clothes shop in Madrid. Not sure if she qualifies as a musician though
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Those 2 are legend!
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Jimmy Pursey used to do his weekly shopping on the same night as us in a supermarket in Hersham. Yes, he was a Hersham Boy. Queued up to pay like the rest of us. Legend.
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I met Jaz Coleman from Killing Joke on the London Underground. He looked at me very intensely with his terrifying stare, and I just thought, 'What on earth have I done?
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MANY years ago I was staying at an upmarket hotel in Sheffield with work.
I was there with an older colleague.
One day we arrived back at the hotel after work and were going up in the lift to our rooms.
Also in the lift were Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman
My work colleague was probably in his mid 50s and could hardly control himself after we both got out of the lift. “Did you see who they were ?” he said
I replied “YES”
True story
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