It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.