I had the wonderful opportunity of meeting Pam Grier aka "Foxy Brown" and the late Mahalia Jackson, Bobby Womack. I met Ms. Jackson on stage as very young child during one of her stirring performances and Mr. Womack and Ms. Grier at my workplace. Those are memories I will cherish forever.
I have met a few famous people in my time, mostly footballers. But the ones i liked best were perhaps not as famous. There was Peter Ustinov at my graduation and a hero of mine Donald Woods, the South African journalist and anti apartheid campaigner whose life was brilliantly portrayed by Kevin Kline in the film Cry Freedom.
Alex Salmond?
My life has not been filled with stars...
My mum met Bruce Forsyth recently. And two guys from The Young Ones, apparently.
I once met Sir David Attenborough
Jamie Lee Curtis, or Arnold Schwarzenegger, you decide.
I met John Starks. It was amazing
Oscar Schmidt, Brazil's greatest basketball player of all time.
I met the British actor Sean Harris in the London Underground xx
Pavarotti
Dustin Hoffman
Clayton Moore
Willie Nelson
Nora Roberts
Queen Nora
BB King
Ron White
Steve Adler
Dr. Oz
All nice enough. Have met a lot of musicians in my day but most I have met are the same as you and me.
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Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, Les Wexner (one of several billionaires with whom my dad is acquainted), and Ann Coulter once called me a bitch at a guest lecture at Denison University about 8 years ago. lol
When I was at Oxford I was ushered into the presence of "someone I should meet', one David Cameron. I knew he was going somewhere because he got me smoking and I don't smoke.
In politics...Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe
In music...Leslie West, Lee Sklar, G.E Smith and Patsy Lynn.
Interesting story about Patsy Lynn... Her husband Phillip plays in Patsy's mom's band and they stopped in a bar I happened to be in after a show one night. I had the opportunity to jam on stage with Phillip for a couple of songs. I enjoyed cocktails with Patsy and she is very pleasant and personable.