“You pinko!” by a Tory minister signing off at the end of an interview with me during the EU referendum campaign.
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“What makes you think you are so special?”
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View all 122 →Edward Bond, the playwright, said I was like a turd flowing on the effluent of British culture.
That I am a terrible actor.
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
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View profile →I’ve been asleep at the wheel on the M11, had an engine fire over the Atlantic in a light aircraft, driven unprotected through an enemy firing zone to do a gig in wartime Sarajevo – the list goes on and on. But I did have stage 3 throat cancer and was cured by some fantastic UK medics.
I once threw up on the shoes of one of my vocal heroes, the Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. He sent me home in a taxi with a towel.
Procrastination.
Runway 27R at Heathrow.
Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
A Cessna Golden Eagle eight-seater aircraft. I flew it across the Atlantic both ways and did two US tours and two European tours in it. I finally sold it and got a job as an airline pilot in which I was paid to fly, rather than the other way round.
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