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I was a ticket taker at the Universal Amphitheatre, an outdoor music venue. I saw everybody – Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, the Eagles, Elton. But, after that, we had to clean the women’s restrooms and that was horrible. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of vomiting, a lot of very messy bathrooms.
Selling fire alarms at 18 or 19.
When I was a teenager I worked as a lifeguard, and one of our duties was to clean the showers. It essentially involved cleaning people’s pubes from the drain.
Cleaning men’s toilets in the Swan hotel in the Cotswolds.
When my mother was alive. She passed away 14 years ago.
Any song by Donny Hathaway.
As someone who cared about others.
To anyone I’ve hurt unintentionally.
A family holiday – anywhere the kids demand. Last year, I wanted us all to go to Egypt and my daughter said, “No, we’re going to go to Grenada.” So we did.
When I realised I wasn’t going to make it as a singer-songwriter when I was about 25.
Andy Serkis, Archie Panjabi, James Norton, Omid Djalili, Julian Sands, Frank Cottrell-Boyce
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