Just wanted to come back to the fact that by this time tomorrow I will have been in the same room as Shakin Stevens briefly.
When I was a little girl he was my first case of hero worship. I had two Shakin Stevens cassettes which I played over and over again, rewinding and replaying each line then writing it down until I had the lyrics to every song. I remember watching Jim’ll Fix It when they had three kids on there dancing with Shaky to This Old House and wishing so hard that it hadn’t already been on there because now there was no chance of me writing in and asking for the same thing and it happening again. I had a life sized posted on my wall of him which I used to clamber up the bookcase every night to offer a goodnight kiss to. The bit of poster round his nose and mouth wore away in the end!
For quite some while I was convinced that Elvis was actually a Shaky impersonator 😀
Anyway, tomorrow night I’ll be there, in the front row, with my small child in tow, singing along with him for all we’re worth and loving every minute of it!
