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VIDEOS AND MOVIES
Dad - A tribute
Featuring the classical music, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Rachmaninov from Prince Igor by Borodin. This is a collection of photos put together as a movie using Windows Movie Maker.
Wayne with someone else - No. 1
This collection of photos features Wayne with at least one other, either friends or family members.
NIKKI - DOWN THE AISLE
Saturday 11 November 2006
Nik's wedding day, marrying Paul at Morden Registry Office. Here she is walking down the aisle with her son Charlie and Dad. It's sad and yet great to have Dad immortalised forever in video and online.
NIKKI - THE WEDDING SURPRISE
Saturday 11 November 2006
Dad, Michele and I decided to pay for the wedding car hire but only told Nik that a standard chauffeur and Mercedes E Class would be turning up. Her surprise to see a vintage ivory Beauford is captured here forever.
LAMBORGHINI DRIVING - FULL LENGTH VERSION
Simon and I take the Lamborghini Gallardo back to its owner, via the A3 and M25. You join the view from the dashboard as we head past the Esher turn off on the A3 heading for junction 10, the Wisley/M25 turn off. Ahead, for the some of the time is Nick in the Lexus.
ETHAN - AWE BLESS
Tuesday 24 February 2009
My mad grandson, Ethan... loving all of the attention, while his brother had an afternoon nap.
For those that have known me for many years, will know that I was once the UK's youngest on-air presenter. At just 12 years of age, I had acquired my own self-engineered radio show at the studios of hospital radio, Radio Lollipop. The station was piped throughout Queen Mary's Hospital for Children in Carshalton in Surrey. I'd been in there for the removal of my tonsils five years earlier but the radio station didn't exist then. It was created by Marc Damon who was the Station Manager and it went on air for the first time on 5 May 1979. I joined later in the year and had my own show, three times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, 7-8pm and then went on to do the chart show Saturday nights 5-8pm. Part of the duties of working for Lollipop was to ward visit and on Ward D2, was a patient called Evelyn. After she came out of hospital, she came to the studios and started helping out and was my programme assistant. She also became my first girlfriend and first love. Hahaha! Sweet days.
Anyway, I've only found one photo from those days... it's the one on the left (and Evelyn's on the left).
But what I wanted to share with you was some of the recordings I've had on a showreel ever since, some 30 years ago.
At the start of each show, it became renowned to find out what antics we'd be up to in the studio, using the equipment to edit together another daft batch of noises that made the intro for that weeks' shows. Here's a few of those jingles:
Another significant song of my growing up. This song, and indeed the entire album, was featured heavily during my time alone, having separated from Debbie. I was living at a bed and breakfast and would spend hours listening to this album but loved this track and one other (Talking In My Sleep), the most.
I love this song so much, I'm on a mission to record it myself. I've got some help and might be able to do it without the need to hire a recording studio. It's my goal to have it played at my funeral.
My favourite group ever - Gallagher & Lyle and this track dates back to my youth again. I played hundreds of times. It was only ever a track on several of their albums and was never a single.
This track from 1971, is still, and always has been, my favourite song of all time. It started out as a 7" single on Pye Records and belonged to my Grandmother. I would play it over and over on her gramophone in the front living room until I knew all of the words off by heart.
This track was added to the website as it is featured as an "our song." It is Dave Bacon's and my record. David played it when we first met in 1986 and I fell in love with it straight away.
This track has always been in the collection, on an much loved Bread album. But, the significance of being included on the site is that the title of the track were the words I used for the card for Dad's funeral flowers. I think about the lyrics and they remind of how I am now, without Dad.
This is one of the best songs ever. It applies to a lot of situations in my life, most particularly my Dad passing away in April 2008. And recently David going away for 2 weeks and all those years ago, missing school mates and my first girlfriend.
I discovered this song by playing b sides when I was younger. The A side was Burn Rubber On Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) from 1979. This track shows The Gap Band's versatility from the massive disco floor-filler hit "Oops Upside Your Head."
This was originally a track written by my mate, Kes Howe. He gave me a copy of him singing it, on cassette and I learned the lyrics playing it hundreds of times. Some years later, I was able to sing it when I met up with Kes again when we were having an unplanned recording session at his house. This track is the result and I remember being really pleased that we did it in one recording, without editing.
This track was added to the website as it is featured as an "our song." It is Emma Browne's and my record. The song is significant between the two of us because we'd always make a point of trying to sing it together as a duet when we met up for karaoke at the bar.
An historic track from my youth. In the old days of vinyl, B sides played just as big a role as the A side to any 7" single. The hit single, albeit a minor one in the UK, "Be Bop Dancin'" had this fabulous ballad as its B side, Saturday. How I came to have such a good quality mp3 file is amazing. In my search on the internet for an LA Boppers album, I stumbled on the myspace site of one of the band members, Vance R Tenort.
Jezz and I met in November 2000 and Gabrielle was at her peak in the British charts. The album Rise had been out a short while and we played it a lot when we were in each other's company. The track Should I Stay wasn't pertinent from its lyrics but we both thought of it as one of the best tracks at the time.
This track was added to the website as it is featured as an "our song." It is Karl Moffatt's and my record. Karl would make me listen to some of his CD collection when I went to see him both in Ashford (Surrey) and in Chiswick. He was only playing songs because he liked them but for me, it was an education and this was my favourite.
Another significant song of my growing up. This song, and indeed the entire album, was featured heavily during my time alone, having separated from Debbie. I was living at a bed and breakfast and would spend hours listening to this album but loved this track and one other (Baby Says No), the most.
This song I only discovered in 2008 and played it a lot on the way to Tesco's with Dad in the car. It quickly became my favourite song by Matt Monro and Dad's favourite of his was played at his funeral on entering the crematorium, Softly As I Leave You.
This track was added to the website as it is featured as an "our song." It is Bet's and my record. It was also Betty and Dad's song. It was played as we left the crematorium on April 2008 at Dad's funeral service.
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Stay - Bjorn Nilsson
While cruising the website You Tube looking for Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours," I stumbled upon Bjorn Nilsson's version. And naturally, that lead me to other related links including this amazing track, written, produced and sung by Bjorn. I love it and became a fan instantly.
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