Simon 'Blue' Robinson
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Just the power in the legs.
So I watched him do six or seven.
I managed to do one.
Like one, like an elephant.
So...
And that's what kept me going.
A lot of people said, how could you stand him?
Well, okay.
I mean, yes, he was hard, but he was a genius.
So he makes the rules.
He said to me, if you're not happy, you go.
And if I'm not happy with you, you're gone in a second, in a heartbeat.
The same with any dancer.
So it was up to me to stay.
I realized that he was becoming very unwell.
He wasn't taking any of the medication he should have done.
I was bathing him, massaging some life into him, carrying him in and out of bed.
And he would wear sweatshirts to bed every night, thick, thick double-lined sweatshirts.
So he would sweat enormously in the night.
I'd get up and change these for him at 1 or 2 a.m., wringing wet, and put a new one on.