Kevin Rowland
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My brother Pete passing on in 2005.
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Not becoming chancellor.
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David Haye
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Being let down by people I trust always stings.
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Not photographing Marilyn Monroe.
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My friends dying: Alexander (McQueen), Isabella (Blow), a friend of cancer last year.
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I would be richer, I’d have beaten Mrs Thatcher’s ban on women in the cabinet, and I would be a dame.
I am happy now.
As health minister, I brought in breast and cervical cancer screening. And in 1994 I called the first debate on gay rights for a quarter-century and we got the age of consent down to 18. There are pubs in Brighton where I still can’t pay for a drink.
Brighton, 1984. I was in another hotel just a few yards away.
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