Bill Nighy
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And I took it back and I showed it to my sister and she said, no, that's a 78.
They do 45s now.
You can sit on them and they don't break.
And I was completely humiliated and it didn't go well.
The first single I ever bought, I think, was Summertime by a singer called Billy Fury.
And the first album, which I think my sister bought for me,
was Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames live at the Flamingo.
I think that's right.
And Georgie Fame is a British, very famous British R&B jazz organ player.
And I was, by then, I was listening to a lot of, you know, not a lot, because you couldn't get a lot of soul imports from America.
But I was beginning my relationship with R&B, what you now call R&B.
I would listen to things like Um Um Um Um Um Um by Major Lance, which I only found out the other day was written by Curtis Mayfield.
And I had no idea because I downloaded a tribute album to Curtis Mayfield.
And I discovered that amongst many other things, he'd written, um, um, um, um, um, um.
Oh, I've just used a banned word.
I just used the word amongst.
I'm going to have to kill myself.
And my producer is laughing in my face.
She's so happy.