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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.

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/

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?

I reckon with a few more posts we could write "Leo Sayer the Life Story: the untold years (including the dirty bits)". He couldn't sue if it was all true! NSC with all its members could do the same for loads of so-called celebs in Sussex... so who bumped into Rod Stewart before he was hosed off...

2am .... he obviously had to get up early in the morning, slaving for bread! Sorry, hat and coat....

He worked at Southlands Hospital sometime until about 1973... I guess he was aged about 24 or 25 then. He was quite small but had a mop of hair - tied back for his hospital duties. I always thought he could have made it in the Roger Daltrey style but he sort of sold out after his first two...

Does anyone else remember Leo Sayer before he was famous? Met Adam Faith once in Churchill Square and had a very brief encounter with Sally Geeson (elsewhere on my blog) in Worthing, while doing a Saturday job. Many years later - after his Olympic years - in about 1992 met Steve Ovett in a pub...