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I'm impressed at how fit and agile he is considering he's 48. He can still move about the stage with suppleness and grace. I wonder how his back is these days?

Strong and Misunderstood for me -and agree Party Like A Russian is a great video. Millennium is really good too.

So I decided to keep the extra tickets I initially got for my friend. I'm going on the Monday :cheer:

Oh my goodness -I can remember watching this performance live on TV through my fingers -hoping nothing would go wrong and being so relieved when it all went off smoothly. ^_^

Sorry -I've posted this too in another thread -it is funny though :lol:

My friend told me she thought they had special prices for fans -like when he did The Palladium and charged £60. I guess we'll find out tomorrow. I've decided not to try because I think it will be extortionate and I had such a lovely time seeing him just a couple of weeks ago and Christmas expense is coming..... I'm keeping my fingers cross ^_^ ed for those trying tomorrow that the prices are "reasonable" B-) :wub:

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Knebworth :heart: Mine was February 1998 Brits performance with Tom Jones. When he walked on I thought "here comes that cocky little sprog from TT about to ruin a Cockney Rebel song " and by the time he'd finished the set I was like "WOW" :wub:

Well he's read at least one five star review -this makes me happy ^_^

Great story Alex - I love that you can pin point when you became a fan ^_^

This is such a gorgeous, warm, powerful photo :heart: His Dad has lost loads of weight -he looks quite frail here -_-

Trouble With Me Absolutely love that song and it's cutting lyrics :wub:

The Edge is a gorgeous song :wub:

He said after the Strictly performance two weeks ago - he saw he was trending on Twitter but didn't go in and read which was just as well because he got slated. But for every one of them there is a brilliant performance or a Brilliant review that he probably doesn't read either. The reaction to Rudebox together with what he was taking at the time nearly killed him. He's matured now and how he does professionally, whilst it's important, - it's not the most important thing in his life. So I guess lessons learnt after Rudebox but that doesn't detract from it being a great album and has already been stated -the 80s and 90s are two of the best songs he's ever written. They are complete gems.

Lewis Corner of Digital Spy gave the song 4 out of 5 stars, writing that "'Candy' doesn't touch the dizzying heights of 'Rock DJ' or 'Angels', but it's also far from his worst song to date Praise indeed! :lol: :unsure: :lol:

Plus do you remember at that press conference in 2005 he p***ed a lot of them off by sticking up for someone (was it Kate Moss?) who they were dissing about cocaine use and he said that they were hypocrites as he had taken cocaine with most of the journos? So they were gunning for him regardless of his musical output. I can accept it's not to everyone's taste - but it felt fresh and new to me and to my girls I remember who were only 14/15 at the time., It wasn't nice for him what he went through straight after but he got to meet Ayda in the space that followed and matured as a person so he got his happy ending.

Seeing the two of them perform together now Harry is all grown up would be fun ;)

It worked brilliantly as an opener -really exciting and it was great to hear it after so long So Lost was back on the set list in Manchester?

and me elisabeth -I can remember being completely enthralled and invested in the whole thing

It's hard to imagine that Rudebox caused such a kerfuffle and what all the fuss was about. More to do with an excuse to bring down a peg or two, the most popular artist in UK at that time than the album itself surely? I wonder if it could happen again? If say Ed Sheeran brought out an album that was unlike anything he'd ever done before -would it be so derided? I think maybe music nowadays is more diverse than in 2006 and people are more accepting. I could imagine RW doing something similar again and albums sell so little nowadays -why not? I'd rather he did that than keep playing safe.

Find myself liking Liam more and more these days

What an amazing building and what an honour for him to be able to perform there. I hope the live stream is video as well as audio.

Oh my goodness -how can that be ten years? :o

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