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Pat enjoyed her lunch at Tarantino’s and I enjoyed watching her. The food was good as always and the staff their usual attentive selves.
A few days ago I mentioned stars and as I walked around the square this morning, lost in my thoughts, I looked back on the stars that I have properly met. Many years ago Pat and I owned and ran a sports shop for 10 years and had several stars as customers. Frank Lampard Snr. was one along with Kenny Ball the Jazz man.
We were often invited, by our sport suppliers, to attend trade fairs where we met, albeit very briefly, many sporting celebrities. The two most memorable were Daley Thompson and Trevor Brooking both perfect gentlemen and very approachable and amiable.
Being music fans, mostly but not always Country music, Pat and I have attended many concerts and gigs preferring the small clubs to the larger arenas. We have had the pleasure of meeting on several occasions Albert Lee, fondly known as the third Everly Brother as well as Rodney Crowell and Glen D Hardin pianist extraordinaire who accompanied most of the big artists including Elvis and Roy Orbison. My personal all time favourite is Emmylou Harris who invited us backstage at the Albert Hall to meet her and the band. Such a memorable evening.
Pat is an artist and did a painting of Albert Lee which she presented to him at what was then known as the Hammersmith Odeon. It’s changed names many times since then. Because the show was about to begin he wasn’t able to look at the painting while we were there but had one of the roadies put into the tour bus. We have often wondered what he thought of the painting and whether he took it to the U.S. where he now lives. More probably it’s languishing in an attic or a charity shop somewhere. It was a good painting which would be a shame.
Unfortunately, we don’t get to shows much these days.
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