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Modelling tuxedos at the Oklahoma State Fair in 1971.
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Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
The idiocy of going to Skye from New Zealand in April 2020. All of a sudden, I’m turning on the news and hearing myself as an item. I have never been more mortified.
Fainting as a chorister in Winchester Cathedral in the middle of a service.
Bruce Dickinson
English heavy metal singer
I once threw up on the shoes of one of my vocal heroes, the Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. He sent me home in a taxi with a towel.
In the 1950s I went to the Chelsea Arts Club’s New Year’s Eve ball at the Royal Albert Hall dressed as a Christmas pudding, with swimming trunks under my costume and holly in my hair.
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A new administration here in the US.
My father. He has treated every person he has met with kindness and respect.
Asking my wife questions that don't need to be asked.
The day our daughter was born, or maybe fishing on the Colorado river with my wife and brother and his buddy Earl.
Mr Tambourine Man.
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