Seize the Day (53 page)
Authors: Mike Read
Hanging out with the Brisbane boys, Robin Gibb and Peter Andre.
The launch of the first Betjeman album at Kettner’s with rascals such as Captain Sensible, Annie Haslam, David Essex, Steve Harley and Arista boss Peter Jamieson.
Alvin Stardust, Cliff Richard, Andrew Lloyd Webber and I share a bottle of something highly carbonated at the launch of the
Pop Quiz
board game.
A Guinness World Record: two dozen broadcasters and none of them talking.
Our party at the House of Commons for the number ones of the ’70s. One point for every one you can name.
Prince Philip about to land me one at Buckingham Palace, although as a royalist with concern for my knighthood I offer no resistance.
It’s all very well, but she held my hand for a full twenty minutes.
Peter Fleming, Cliff and myself all behaving like the gentlemen we are. But what the heck is Michael Chang looking at?
Lady Betjeman making me work for my tea.
With Margaret Thatcher in 2002.
Our skiing gang in Lech, Austria.
Tennis giants. Well, three of them: Bahrami, Leconte and Nast
ă
se to you.
The Radio One team are victorious at Old Trafford as Bobby Charlton and I lift the coveted trophy. Between us we have 106 England caps. He has 106 of them.