'You Keep It All In' - Paul Heaton featuring @riannedowney_ as featured live on '@BBCLater with Jools Holland'.
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David Bowie had gone to a private showing of his 1987 movie Labyrinth. Afterward, he’d have a meet-and-greet with a group of children. He met them and had a ball, but one boy was shy and withdrawn.
So Bowie asked the organizers of the event if he could talk to the boy by himself, seeing as though he was “so shy."
The kid wasn’t actually shy — he was autistic. Bowie told the kid he was also scared, too, of everything. He was, in fact, only able to face other people because of a “magic mask” he would always wear. It just so happened the mask was ‘invisible.’
He gave it to the boy. He then acted rather distressed himself and had to make another magic mask, after which he became calm, too. Bowie and the kid just hung out for thirty minutes, and it was a magical experience.
The boy later said he actually felt more confident after meeting David Bowie and receiving his “magic mask."
Bowie reminded the boy of how ‘everyone is shy and scared sometimes, and we all wear masks’. Not every celebrity as famous as Bowie would take so much time and go through such effort to put an uncomfortable kid at ease at an event.
On a lighter note. There is a village in Shropshire that I drive through occasionally called Knockin. And I'm sure you'll all be overjoyed as I am to know that the local shop there is called 'The Knockin Shop'. Bravo!
Thirty-six years ago this very day, these four scallywags stepped into a rehearsal room together for the first time.
We played our first gig eleven days later.
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I bought every Small Faces single on the day of release.. every one an absolute cracker too! This live clip from Beat Club gives an idea what fun their live show must've been too. 🎸🎸🎸
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We are about to launch a mild chilli sauce in July. It's available for preorder at https://t.co/1fqfKznWDi There’s 1 problem …it doesn't have a name! For a chance to win a full set of our sauces when the new one launches, simply choose a Snow Patrol song we can name it after!
Met a new little friend today 💙
Pic by my pal @hedgehoghugh Do check out his twitter & follow, folks. He does incredible work in the conservation of our wildlife 🦔🐦🐸
It’s not everyday I find myself in such esteemed company. Here with my old friends Simon Hinkler & Wayne Hussey of @the_mission_uk tonight in Birmingham. Great show, great set list and only night one of their three month European tour. God speed you my Brothers. X