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A trip that was, like, $100k. It was a lot of money and I didn’t even go on it. It was to St Barts. I paid for me and my friends and a lot of stuff fell apart, and then it ended up with one of my friends just going with his girlfriend.
When I was 18, I bought a boat for a million pounds and sold it a year later for just over half the price.
Holidays. For years, I would book a big house in Britain for a week for the entire family. There would be 14 of us. I don’t regret a penny.
A Matisse and my Leica camera.
Procrastination.
Runway 27R at Heathrow.
Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
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.
“What makes you think you are so special?”
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.
Alison Moyet, Andi Oliver, Belinda Carlisle, Beverley Knight, Billy Porter, Charlotte Church
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