Claim To Fame

[mike A]

quote:Originally posted by Scunner

Did you like the Queen, Mike?

I did actually, I had not long been out of Hospital, and she had been well briefed and seemed very sympathetic .

[kayakebab]

I've tested Fred Perry, Vera Lynn, Laurence Olivier, and Imran Khans blood!

My dads best man was Ray Brooks.

[Stan]

Thought you said tasted for a second.

[grahamturner09]

My brother and his partner just won celebrity coach trip.

[Scunner]

You are reading things that simply aren't there Stan. Me too, for some reason I read it as "Fred West..."

[Scunner]

quote:Originally posted by grahamturner09

My brother and his partner just won celebrity coach trip.

I liked your brother Graham, he seemed a good guy. How they put up with that idiot McCrirrick (?) and more so the desperate and sad limelight seeker Barrymore is beyond me. Barrymore should give it up and retire.

[amca]

I was in Hyde Park at the same time as the Rolling Stones.

[grahamturner09]

There was a lot more that went on with Barrymore they had to get rid of him. He punched Gary called the black guy a n****r  and started a fight in a night club.

[Gorgeous_bird]

Nicks cousin laundered money from the Brinks Matt robbery, and met his end on the pavement outside his taxi office.Nice. My uncle was the cameraman for the Odyssey video "If your looking for a way out" He gave me the promotional single. I was chuffed

[farmer]

Standing in a field near Aldershot playing on a background recording to a battlefield scene for the Charge of the Light Brigade film (1968). And then being told to de-tune our instruments and play as roughly as possible, as we were playing too musically.
The Sound Engineer explained that we were replacing a local army which had been  used on location in Turkey, as they could not play well enough!

Later that year. In full Uniform, on Clapham Common, waiting to play for a Horse Show. Pal Fred the Tuba player was approached by a tall young lady asking what time the Arena Events started. Fred answering ‘ don't know love, but we play from 2 to 2.30. Then being approached by a tall gentleman, striding along with his arms clasped behind his back. He asked Fred just where the arena was. ‘don't exactly know, but that  Bird just in front is going there. Why don't you follow her'?
I tried to disappear into Fred's Tuba, having witnessed him talking to Princess Anne and Prince Philip.

Earlier that year. Accompanying Bud Flanagan to record the opening theme for Dad's Army. Violin. Orchestra of the Coldstream Guards Band. Then recording the closing credits march with the Band of the Coldstream Guards.

Busy year!