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Video 88 now. This is my cover version of a recent Coldplay song called "Lost". A lot of people have asked me to sing this one so it's a popular request.

Have a listen:

My dad's story will resume in my next post, because there was something I wanted to cover that was quite current. If you are in the UK then you may know about a TV programme called "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here". One of the celebrities in the show is a man called "David Van Day". I first noticed he was in it when I was visiting a friend. My friend enquired who he was. I just said that he used to be in a successful band called Dollar in the early 80's, and that my opinion of him was not that great, to put it kindly.

My opinion was based on one of my experiences as a teenager. When I was about 17 I worked in a shop called CRS (Co-operative Retail Services) in Uxbridge. During my lunch I popped into WH Smith to buy a few records. The title of one of the purchases was "Videotheque" by "Dollar". Quite by chance, as I was about to pay, who should walk in but David Van Day and Therese Bazaar. Both halves of Dollar. They were there for a signing session. David was quite a short man, and Therese was even shorter. She moved up the counter to me and picked up the records I was buying, complimenting me on my musical taste. Then we had a little chat. David was getting increasingly bothered by the lack of attention for him, and asked her to hurry up. So she signed my copy of their record, and took the disc over to him and more or less demanded that he sign it too.

After paying for my records, I said farewell. Therese smiled and said goodbye. David just ignored me. I got the impression that he was a selfish individual.

From watching "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here" I see that he hasn't changed much. I have to add that I thought Therese was wonderful. I felt that she was happy for the conversation, which made me feel good.

Back to the Youtube stuff.

I've cracked it. The 1k sub mark has been passed, and I'm now at 1020.

The views for my channel are now 24,010 and the overall video views are 414,193.

I haven't yet planned my next vid, but it's probably going to be another cover. There's also another duet with Kareneng coming up soon :)