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A drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.
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A magazine editor.
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A vet, but I wasn’t smart enough.
Matt Goss
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I wanted to be like Vidal Sassoon and wear the three-piece suit and be part of pop culture.
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View profile →Having three great daughters, having been on the radio for nearly 50 years and not being dead.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
A nice long rest.
A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
Fairly decent bloke.
Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.
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