HOLIDAYS

Except for Disneyland, Paris - which I mention in "Theme Parks" - and a couple of cruises, I don't take too many holidays. This is not to say that I wouldn't like to. I'd love to; but needs must etc...

One result of having worked most of my adult life as a professional musician is that I am used to working when the general public is on holiday.

Musicians are the noisy people you grimace at when you're in the bar of your favourite hotel trying to hold a conversation. And they're the people you grimace at when they play the kind of music you don't like. And they are the people you grimace at when they don't play knees-up music 2 minutes before closing time, just when you've finally gotten plastered enough to loose those inhibitions. And they are the people you grimace at when you find out just how much they are being paid simply to play a few tunes!