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Sat and chatted to Danny La Rue on IOW hovercraft while he sat on the crew bench at the front - I was the safety crewman on that service when a teenager.

Chatted with Dizzy Gillespie about horns in Jazz when he stayed at Mayfair hotel when I was a cleaner.

Spoke with Tommy Tomlinson when he stayed at Mayfair hotel when I was a cleaner.

Asked Alan Wicker to help me get into film/media when he stayed at Mayfair hotel when I was a cleaner who'd just finished apprenticeship as commercial photographer.

Asked Stevie Wonder if his huge penthouse mirrors were OK after cleaning them as he stayed in Mayfair hotel when I was a teenager. He said "Man they're fine", he was OK about it because we'd be cracking jokes the whole time I cleaned his place.

Put on some bands the last 3 years including Little Barrie and Thunderclap Newman, was great talking to Andy Newman those few weeks.

Used to share a flat in Chelsea and this big guy used to come round and cook, we had him for lunch one Xmas day, he was always cracking jokes and causing chaos in bars when we went out, then I saw him on telly years later as a chef, Ainsley Harriot.

Have met and now know Doc Watson, pretty much the lead old-time music player, aged 84.

I was an agony aunt with a difference. My advice used to have a kind of 'top tips' twist to it. Here's an example:

I advised a guy who was suffering from terrible loneliness to convince his postman that he was more popular the he actually was by sending himself several hundred Christmas cards each year.

MrBen Wrote:

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> Marie Claire Man of the Month, September 2002.:-$


You are Ben Volpierre-Pierrot and I claim my ?50.00. Hope the name's spelled right, 'cos I didn't Google.


But never mind all that, I want my 'alf-a-century.

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