Monday marks the 50th anniversary of my 1st radio broadcast. Within weeks I would sign to Elton John’s Rocket Records and my dad & I would find ourselves in the back of Elton’s Phantom V Rolls Royce. That’s why I’ve been a little emotional this week thinking back 50 years to the week when the course of my life changed dramatically forever
As you follow my ‘wonderful’, ‘thrilled filled’, ‘exciting’ life on social media spare a thought for me trying to find enough time to live and to do things that I can then spend the rest of the day posting about online!
You would have thought I would be used to it by now. It’s actually 50 years this month since I first appeared on BBC Radio 1. How come I’m just as nervous now about sending a new record out into the world as I was back then?
What a fantastic afternoon IO spent with the Swansea U3A Ukulele Big Band!! For This Reason
People can get a very different view of your life than the way it is in reality. This week on social media I had gone to Prague, had a great time and got back in time for a walk along the beach on Friday morning. The truth, thanks to EasyJet I had missed Prague completely!
If I’m really being honest, looking back with 20:20 hindsight, 50 years ago when my journey with spectacles started I don’t think I really needed glasses at all. Now they are one of the most important parts of my ‘image’.
I got to go to an FA Cup Final once. It was back in 1977, Manchester United versus Liverpool. Just like so many amazing things that happened to me in the 1970’s the ticket was down to Elton John.
Last weekend Mumbles had a brand new tourist attraction. With the Mumbles Railway, the seaside and ice cream, chips and oysters the village has always been the place to go on a summer’s day. Then last weekend the news started going around that we had to get down to the front to see the big digger. The question on everyone’s lips seemed to be, ‘how could this have happened?’.
2 big stories in the news sewage in the water and Artificial Intelligence. How would I link them for this blog? Then I had a brainwave, I would ask Google’s AI system ‘Bard’ to write my article for me.
It was late last year that I got an email from the office of the Bishop of Swansea & Brecon. 2023 was going to be their Centenary. Could I write them a new Anthem to be performed at a special event in September to be held at the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells?
