1. Me with the late great Jack Douglas.
1. Me with the late great Jack Douglas.
2. ‘He’s behind you!’ Me as Abanazer at the hall for Cornwall where I did my first pantomime. From left to right: Lisa Wakeman, Oliver Wakeman, Abanazer, Adam Wakeman, Jemma Wakeman.
3. At a Heritage Luncheon. From left to right: Mark Kelly, Jess Conrad, Sue Upton, David Kaufman, David Graham, Pat Kaufman, me, Rachel, Elaine Dean, Tom Dean, Ian Lavender, Miki Lavender.
4. With Ian Freeman and David Graham who run the Heritage Foundation. I was an extremely proud president of the foundation for two years.
5. A very rare picture from the Wot’s on TV Tonight tour. From left to right: Me, Adam Wakeman, Fraser Thorneycroft-Smith.
6. An early photo of Adam and I performing together on stage.
7. Well at least Eric Sykes and Dennis Waterman look like golfers!
8. This is the weight I should be!
9. A one-off photo of my son Benjamin with my mum shortly before she passed away.
10. A rare photo of me with my mum (on the right) and her sister Olive. It was taken at her last birthday party.
11. It was great having no stomach back then – I could see the ball!
12. Taken at a sound check somewhere. Don’t ask me where though – I estimate I’ve done about five thousand sound checks!
13. Believe it or not, there is a ‘Yes Day’ in Philadelphia and this picture was taken at the congressman’s house where they threw a party for the band. From left to right: Me, Steve Howe, Michael Smerconish and his wife, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Alan White.
14. Me and Chris at the same party – everyone else had gone home!
15. I wish I knew where my teddy ended up!
16. Me and my good friend Robin Gibb, who took over the presidency of the Heritage Foundation after my term in office.
17. This was when I did the televised celebrity golf in Northern France. From left to right there’s Tony Jacklin (well a bit of his back and head anyway), one of the caddies, Bill Cotton Junior, Kevin Keegan, another caddy, Ronan Rafferty, Sam Torrance, me and the cameraman who, two holes later, I hit on the head with my tee shot and watched being taken off to hospital!
18. From left to right: Me, Ian Freeman, Robin Gibb and his wife Dwina at the unveiling of the plaque for Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman.
19. I love this photo of me as a toddler as that is the nickname Rachel calls me – and she’s the only one allowed to!
20. Yes, I was fit once. This was taken at the registration for an Isle of Man fun run more than twenty years ago! From left to right: Jemma, Ben, Oscar and me.
21. Wendy Richard, June Brown and me.
22. Me in Cuba with the statue of John Lennon.
23. Taken at the opening of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Institute in Liverpool. From left to right: Jean Boht, Sylvia Ingham, Ken Dodd, Fiona Castle, Stella Vaughan, Janet Brown, Frankie Vaughan, Cliff Richard, me, Robert Powell.
24. Me and Norman Wisdom having a cream bun fight! As this photograph shows... Norman won!
25. Adam, Bonnie Tyler and me.