Bobby Gillespie: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

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

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Bobby Gillespie said elsewhere, not written here

Standing on stage in between Robert Young and Andrew Innes, blasting away.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 May 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

Pete Postlethwaite English actor

Last Sunday night in front of the fire, watching Mamma Mia! with Jax and our children, Will and Lily.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2009 source ↗

Meg Rosoff American novelist

Swimming in the North Sea at midnight, surrounded by phosphorescence.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗

Trevor McDonald British newsreader and journalist

As a young child in the West Indies and having fun with my friends, playing sport and hanging about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 January 2011 source ↗

At the altar all seven times.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗