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In my first job in film, a giant bloke dressed like a sumo wrestler asked me to get his G-string out of his arse. He said he couldn’t reach it.
I cleaned the toilets at the local pub every Saturday morning.
When I was young, selling maps to stars’ homes in Hollywood, somebody flashed their wiener at me. It was traumatising.
A cabaret act with Agnetha, Frida and Benny. It was in a nightclub in Gothenburg and one night we had seven in the audience. It was before we found out that we were a pop group.
I didn’t want to be anything because I don’t look ahead. Even as a kid I thought it was pointless.
Kiss And Say Goodbye by the Manhattans.
As a writer who took cheering up his listeners seriously.
Probably a piece of music. I think it was probably an album by Brian Eno called Another Green World, which is one of his early ‘70s, it’s ambient music, but not the kind of really weird ambient music. There’s an adage that says the music you discover when you are 18, I think it’s 18 is the magic year, is the music that stays with you for the rest of your life. ... Well, I discovered that when I was 18. And I sing the songs of that album in my head all of the time. And I worship Brian Eno.
Barack Obama, Caroline Lucas, Gloria Steinem, John Simpson, Jon Sopel, Keir Starmer
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