Brief encounters: Leo Sayer

[On the Left Wing]

So the family story goes, we saw him busking below South Kensington tube station (the bit that leads from the tube to the museums) just before he made it big back in around 73/74. I don't remember it though.

Funnily enough I was debating on my blog about whether I preferred Leo or Roger's version of 'Giving It All Away'. Daltrey's voice is very powerful and the more defiant but Leo's version is far more melodic and arguably he carries the tune better. It's a toughie but Roger wins it, just about, for me.

Agree 100% with your appraisal of Giving It All Away - fabulous song. Have you see the video Daltrey did to go with it... all black and white and just brilliant?

 

[symyjym]

Nice forgot about this. They should have given him his underpants

 

[Fran Hagarty]

That the same Peter Sayer that played football locally, good winger I recall!?

I don't know. He wasn't very tall and had fair hair. Eddie was slightly built and had darker, curly hair.

I seem to recall them playing at the Starlight Rooms in Brighton, a venue on the lines of the Cavern, long since gone.

http://www.brightonbeat.com/venues/starlight_rooms/starlight_rooms_history01.htm

 

[Mellotron]

I once ran into Desmond Dekker in a hotel foyer just outside Kenilworth, Warwickshire at 2am.

#accidentalpartridge

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Popped into the bogs under the clock tower and as I was coming out Steve Ovett was going in.
Went to a party in Crawley and Barry Sheene was there.

 

[On the Left Wing]

Now it is Steve Ovett's turn... another one who has emigrated to Australia. Wonder if he and Leo Sayer meet up at barbies! ;-)
http://seagullnic.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/brief-encounter-11/

 

[tinycowboy]

Went to school with Jamie Theakston. He didn't know that much about music, but he was a nice enough bloke. When I lived in Shoreham, I NEVER saw Leo Sayer ever.

 

[On the Left Wing]

After I posted the Steve Ovett thing on facebook, an old friend asked me who my sporting heroes are. From a VERY long list my top three are:
Kit Napier
Steve Ovett
Ian Botham
And I guess those top three haven't changed for me in over 30 years.

 

[Icy Gull]

After I posted the Steve Ovett thing on facebook, an old friend asked me who my sporting heroes are. From a VERY long list my top three are:
Kit Napier
Steve Ovett
Ian Botham
And I guess those top three haven't changed for me in over 30 years.

Maybe should post a thread on here to see how many put even one of those in their top three, there are a lot of comparative youngsters on NSC these days, I'm not though, and none of them would make my top three either

It would be an interesting thread if people are willing to restrict it to just three.

 

[richmond]

I went to Art college in Worthing 1971-75, the West Sussex College of Design in Union Place. Leo Sayer was a year or two ahead of me, I didn't know him but I heard that he had got kicked out and therefore never finished the course. This info was from my Graphic Design tutor so I took it as true.