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The best show I ever played was with Des O’Connor, Bruce Forsyth and Ronnie Corbett, the four of us presenting the 100th Royal Variety Show. Des was as excited as me. There was a boyish enthusiasm that never left him. This command performance in 2012 was at the Royal Albert Hall for the first time, … Read more
One night in Las Vegas in the late-1960s, when Tom Jones was the stellar headline attraction at the Flamingo Hotel, he said to me, ‘I’ve got a thrill for you, just come with me.’ Tom was the most famous British singer in the world at that time. If he was excited — and I knew … Read more
Us fellas are pretty good at blocking our ears to what we don’t wish to hear. Things like: ‘Can I have that £20 note back that I lent you?’ Or: ‘Have you put the bins out?’ Sometimes, people have to yell before we’ll get the message. I’m incredibly lucky that the guy doing the yelling … Read more