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Old 24-02-2008, 10:46 AM
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The appeal of certain novelty acts is very limited and often short-lived. So he should have realised this and stashed the cash, and who knows, he may still have been around today enjoying his retirement in a nice little villa in The Algarve or somewhere!
It can be done ... there was a programme on TV last year about the 60s singer Leapy 'Little Arrows' Lea. He lives very comfortably in a nice apartment in Spain with his pretty young wife and their young baby. Now in his late 60s, he said he had organised his money sensibly with the help of his agent and doesn't have to work, but he still gives concerts in restaurants/bars etc in Spain for fun.

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It can be done ... there was a programme on TV last year about the 60s singer Leapy 'Little Arrows' Lea. He lives very comfortably in a nice apartment in Spain with his pretty young wife and their young baby. Now in his late 60s, he said he had organised his money sensibly with the help of his agent and doesn't have to work, but he still gives concerts in restaurants/bars etc in Spain for fun.
Leapy Lea's wife isn't, actually, that young, Bats - she had 'unplanned' twins in her 40s I think. Both she and Leapy Lea have grown-up families too.
They live quite modestly above some shops in Spain but, yes, he does 'make a living' of sorts and I don't think they're struggling - he does 'Curry Nights' where he cooks and then sings his 'hit' at the end of the evening.
He also spent time in prison in the early 70s for manslaughter with his mate, Alan Lake.
They were involved in a pub brawl at "The Red Lion" in Sunningdale where the relief manager was stabbed and died. Lea Graham (Leapy) got 3 years, Lake got 18 months - both sentences were later upheld by the court of appeal.

BUT - he did the crime and he did the time and I actually like him!

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Old 24-02-2008, 11:12 AM
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Leapy Lea's wife isn't, actually, that young, Bats - she had 'unplanned' twins in her 40s I think. Both she and Leapy Lea have grown-up families too.
They live quite modestly above some shops in Spain but, yes, he does 'make a living' of sorts and I don't think they're struggling - he does 'Curry Nights' where he cooks and then sings his 'hit' at the end of the evening.
He also spent time in prison in the early 70s for manslaughter with his mate, Alan Lake.
They were involved in a pub brawl at "The Red Lion" in Sunningdale where the relief manager was stabbed and died. Lea Graham (Leapy) got 3 years, Lake got 18 months - both sentences were later upheld by the court of appeal.

BUT - he did the crime and he did the time and I actually quite like him!

YDSL x.
She's younger than me!

He said in the programme I saw that he had saved a lot of money when he was 'big' and his agent had set up a pension/trust scheme for him. He's doing OK and good luck to him, he seemed like a nice guy.
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Old 24-02-2008, 12:38 PM
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I had an opportunity to do some acting once, but providing food and a roof over my family's head kept my mind focussed on a more mundane existence! I suppose I should have a go at something in my spare time, but I don't have any spare time apart from when I'm asleep!

It makes me laugh when these ack-tors being interviewed about their latest "project" whinge about having to get up early on location, and sometimes they don't finish until late in the evening. This is of course for some of the whole 6 weeks or so of film making, whereas idiots like me are up at 5 every morning and stuck in traffic until about 7 in the evening for 50 weeks of the sodding year!

Life is meticulously planned so that you go to work every day and arrive home completely knackered, drained of any enthusiasm or motivation to do anything other than shovel your dinner down your neck and watch crap TV until it's time for bed and then get up again for life's next exciting instalment! Working you to death is of course the government's way of suppressing the working classes so that the slightest hint of rebellion or anti-establishment protest is just a pleasureable but fleeting thought as you drift off to slumberland, dreading the sound of that alarm clock which comes around all too soon the next morning!

By the time you retire your brain is like a half boiled cabbage, and your thoughts turn to garden furniture and bargain coach trips to Montgomoryshire, dressed in a hearing age beige blouson, with matching socks, slip-on shoes, trilby and slacks with an elasticated waistband! You nod in agreement to anything observed by your partner, as your mind drifts back to those halcyon days when you went to Clash concerts and felt like Che Guevara, as you pogoed with a girl in ripped tights and green highlighted hair with a safety pin through her lug-hole!

So stars who end up on Skid Row, I've no sympathy with them whatsoever! If you only have to work 6 months of the year for loads more money than the average person this means that your life is twice as long as a member of the proletariat. If you screw it up then a golden opportunity which you've been blessed with has been totally wasted and you've no-one to blame but yourself!

My next door neighbour's wife has an interesting job, she's an acupuncturist. She only does it part-time, just to earn a bit of pin money!

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not british of course but the wonderfully talented gene anthony ray aka leroy in fame who died aged only 41 was living on a park bench in italy during is latter years
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Old 24-02-2008, 07:35 PM
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I got nicked once for breaking into a £10 note to buy a round of drinks in a pub.
The judge let me off as it was my first offence...

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So kind of you to say so!

Imagine what it would be like though if we ALL became top film directors, writers, ack-tors, TV presenters, soapsters, pop stars, Z list hangers-on etc. Life would be intolerable and the world would be over run by celebrities who nobody paid attention too. We'd say "Goodbye" to the likes of Hello magazine, chat shows would become obsolete, supermarkets would open themselves, and designer labels would be so common than George of Asda, Keynote and Peacocks would become the new exclusive labels to crave!

Television would prefer to feature the lives of ordinary members of the public, who speak in cliches all the time and grin inanely at any question put to them, and programme schedules would be full of this awful, dreary load of old codswallop which costs less to make than a pot of tea! Oh, sorry we have that already don't we, my mistake!

Perhaps we should protest by stacking up our TV sets in Trafalgar Square and setting fire to them, or tearing up TV licences en masse in front of a TV crew. If we start with rebellion against crap TV who knows, we may get to reduce the cost of fuel tax next, or bankrupt rip-off utility companies, corrupt governments and maybe even stop a war or two!

Wasn't Leapy Lea's hit "Little arrows on your clothing, little arrows on your hat..............."?
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Working you to death is of course the government's way of suppressing the working classes so that the slightest hint of rebellion or anti-establishment protest is just a pleasureable but fleeting thought as you drift off to slumberland, dreading the sound of that alarm clock which comes around all too soon the next morning!
Cheer up - it might never happen !

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I tremble to ask what that could possibly be ... Do you work at Broadmoor or something ?
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I tremble to ask what that could possibly be ... Do you work at Broadmoor or something ?
Similar .... but not as high profile.
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He also spent time in prison in the early 70s for manslaughter with his mate, Alan Lake.
They were involved in a pub brawl at "The Red Lion" in Sunningdale where the relief manager was stabbed and died. Lea Graham (Leapy) got 3 years, Lake got 18 months - both sentences were later upheld by the court of appeal.

BUT - he did the crime and he did the time and I actually like him!

YDSL x.
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Leapy Lee (not Lea), knifed the landlord and received three years for, I think, malicious wounding. Luckily the man survived, but no thanks to Mr Lee.
Alan Lake got eighteen months for his part, which IIRC, included passing the weapon to his mate.
To my mind it should be five years for possessing a knife, seven for drawing it, and a minimum of ten for the smallest wound.
So three for stabbing a man is quite a light sentence in my world!
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Cheer up - it might never happen !
It's not my opinion it's just the way it is! Since the dawn of civilization governments have been coming up with devious ways of keeping the masses in check ie. make them so tired that they'll put up with anything.

The surf system started it, trying to scratch a living from strips of land rented from nobility, who had no legal claim to own the land in the first place. They were gifted it as a reward for bringing valuable booty home to the king/queen from looting foreign lands, and so they and their descendants were set up for life, and even today charge the latter day surfs for viewing stately homes and gardens on land that never even paid for.

During the industrial revolution those who couldn't farm at near subsistence level worked punishingly long hours in mills and factories, including their children, just to earn enough for food and rent, bringing up a family in a two roomed hovel.

Now in the late 20th and early 21st century we may have better working conditions, so to keep us down we are encouraged to live in debt so we won't strike on a principle, and shorter working days would possibly give us more free time to air our grievances with likeminded folk. So they came up with three new ways of frustrating us into submission; a rubbish privatized railway system guaranteed to wear you out each day with its incompetent management and slap-dash maintenance policy, insecure one-man operation privatized buses with no conductors so you can live in fear of being assaulted by chavs and other ne'er do wells whenever you use them alone, and lastly the M25 and other gridlocked hell roads where you sit for hours at a time not knowing when you'll get home or even when you'll get to a lavatory before your bladder bursts!
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The surf system started it, trying to scratch a living from strips of land rented from nobility . . .
Always thought The Beach Boys had a lot to answer for
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Similar .... but not as high profile.
Would that be Rampton, Ashworth or Carstairs? Or perhaps like me you work for a medium security setting like the Orchard Clinic in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital? The wonderful world of NHS forensic psychiatry!!!
Time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man...
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Would that be Rampton, Ashworth or Carstairs? Or perhaps like me you work for a medium security setting like the Orchard Clinic in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital? The wonderful world of NHS forensic psychiatry!!!
I work for a medium secure unit in Norwich, very similar to the Orchard Clinic I would imagine .... fun, fun, fun!!!!
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