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Hola Todos, that’s hello everyone in Spanish just in case you didn’t know…and welcome to another edition of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity…a look back at my career in radio and TV and a delve into my celebrity archive looking back at some of the more memorable celebrity intervierws that I have done over the past 30 plus years.

This week English singer songwriter Ralph McTell who wrote the brilliant Streets Of London…and then Jose Feliciano responsible for a song which I heard every Christmas when I was living in Spain…hence the Hola Todos at the beginning….yes that song is Feliz Navidad.

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Hello everyone and thank you for joining me for another edition of Tales from A Very Minor Celebrity… now in this weeks episode you’ll be hearing again from one of the many musical stars that I interviewed over the years…today Alan Price the original keyboardist with the animals, who had a string of hits including the iconic House Of The Rising Sun…and as the long running  Austrian soap Neighbours ends today after 37 years on UK screens, and transmitted all over the world, you’ll hear an interview I did with one of the shows longest serving actors Tom Oliver who played Lou Carpenter in over 2000 episodes… 

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Hi there..and thank you all once again for tuning in for another edition of tales from a very minor Celebrity. This week you’ll be once agin hearing from two musical greats…a two part interview with Petula Clark and also a chat I had with the late Natalie Cole who sadly died in 2015….

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Thanks for joining me again for another edition of tales from a very minor celebrity…a look back at my life in the media, specifically radio and TV and the many celebrities I’ve interviewed and adventures I’ve had during that time…and continue to do so..I still work in radio as a freelance roving reporter for a radio station based in Colchester, a newly created city in the UK for anyone listening from another country...and there are loads of you…always really amazes me how many people from different countries love listening to my stories so thank you very much…

This week two very different interviews…

First my only experience of ‘fan mania’ when I went to meet McFly at the height of their popularity at a record signing and then Steve Hackett who gained prominence as the lead guitarist of Genesis before leaving to pursue a solo career…

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Welcome to anther episode of my podcast Tales From a Very Minor celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive, a look back at some of the very famous people who I have interviewed over the years and the stories behind those interviews…we continue a series of well known musicians and singers and in this episode  you’ll hear from Roger Mcguinn, frontman of the legendary Byrds, considered by critics to be among the most influential bands of their era, and then the late Robert Palmer who tragically died in 2003 at the age of just 54…he talks to me about growing up in Malta, an island we share a connection with! 

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Thanks for tuning into another episode of ‘Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity’, and the second in a series looking back at some of the very famous singers and musicians who I’ve spoken to during my broadcasting career…this week you’ll be hearing from Marie Osmond and the “Godmother of Soul”, Patti Labelle. 

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 This week it’s the start of another series of interviews with a common thread running through them…these are all musicians and singers I have been lucky to chat to over the years…and we start with a lady who comes from my neck of the woods in the UK, the county of Essex and the lady concerned is singer songwriter Alison Moyet noted for her powerful bluesy voice. 

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In this week Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity  it’s the final two stars from shows which I grew up watching and which were huge hits during their time; coming up Robert Vaughn who played Napoleon Solo in the TV series The Man From Uncle and one of the coolest spy’s of his generation….but first Mike Farrell best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt in the television series M.A.S.H. 

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Hello and welcome again to another episode of tales From A Very Minor Celebrity…..now I know I said last week that you’d be hearing from the man from Uncles Robert Vaughn and Mike Farrell from M.A.S.H…the final two stars of another couple programmes from my youth…but there’s been a small change of plan due to a little celebration that our Queen is having at the moment.…I’ve postponed that episode until next week now because as this is the Queens Platinum Jubilee and the whole of the UK seems to have gone bunting mad and holding street parties and other royal celebrations that I would look back at the two occasions that I met two people very close to her majesty, and both royal photographers…the first Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, the late Princess Margarets former husband and Lord Litchfield, the Queen’s cousin and an interview I did with him in 2003….and as a little ‘Brucie Bonus’ you’ll also hear and interview with another royal, Ralf Little from the comedy series, The Royal Family…. I know I know…a little tenuous but it keeps the Royal them going..

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Hello again and thank for downloading this weeks episode of Tales From a Very Minor Celebrity…I must say that this short series of podcasts featuring the stars of programmes from my youth are proving very popular..programmes from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s do seem to hold a special place in many of our hearts and the reruns continue to get very decent viewing figures.

Again this week we’ll be hearing from another two stars from programmes that had huge following back in the day and both have had big hollywood versions made as well…first up is Antonio Fargas who played Huggy Bear in Starsky and Hutch and then one of my all time favourite characters, James Best who was Rosco P Coltrane in the iconic Dukes Of Hazard.