Tony Christie: What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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Recorded Tony Christie said elsewhere, not written here

My wife and I were meant to meet Frank Sinatra before he went on stage in Hamburg. But there was a taxi-drivers’ strike and we were too late.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 January 2024 source ↗

Others on this question

Irvine Welsh Scottish novelist

There’s been the odd beauty on the dance floor I really ought to have gone home with.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2016 source ↗

Fran Lebowitz American author and public speaker

The supreme court. Specifically the case Bush v Gore, which is where Sandra Day O’Connor – one person – decided the presidential election.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 June 2022 source ↗

Viv Albertine Australian-born British musician and writer

Romantic love – what a con. (I do still believe in it.)

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2020 source ↗

Rob Lowe American actor

That I wasn't able to stay on The West Wing longer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 August 2011 source ↗