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Apart from two Olympic gold medals, I’m proud of finishing fifth in the Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in 2016, having never ridden a horse 12 months earlier.
Being able to buy my parents a house.
If you think that you have one, then you’re a bit of a prat, aren’t you?
Deciding what I wanted to do at 15 and, against all odds, doing it.
I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.
I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
Gerry Adams, because he’s got incredible integrity and vision, and he’s had to put up with so much flak.
Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.
On stage – the Old Vic in 1981 and Glastonbury last year.
My dad said, “You’re going nowhere.” I was seven or eight.
Shirley Manson, John Simm, Chaka Khan, Marc Almond, Michael Ball, Yusuf Islam
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