Music, Football and most sports, Reading, Watching Films and TV, messing about on the guitar (not very well, in fact it's appalling), socialising with my mates Jack Daniels and Jim Beam.
Anyone who shares the same kind of interests and humour, but also can point me in the direction of other things that I might be interested in
Mostly mod related. The Jam, Small Faces, The Who, Beatles, Kinks, The Chords, The Creation, The Move, Nine Below Zero, Soul (Motown/Stax/Atlantic/Northern), OCS, Libertines, The Faces, Ronnie Lane, The Byrds. In fact anything that's good,I'll listen to it.
Too many to mention but favourites include: The Godfather Trilogy, The Sting, The Killing Fields, Good Morning Vietnam, Awakenings, This Sporting Life, Angels With Dirty Faces, On The Waterfront, Raging Bull, Saving Private Ryan, Love Honour and Obey, Quadrophenia.
Mostly old stuff such as The Sweeney, Porridge, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, Dad's Army, Steptoe And Son.More recent stuff includes Life On Mars, Shameless, Band Of Brothers. I also like watching channels such as The History Channel, Discovery and anything that grabs my interest
Mostly biographies. The last book I read was Tony Fletcher's Dear Boy, his biography of Keith Moon.My favourite fiction books include 1984 (George Orwell) A Study In Scarlet, The Sign Of Four, Hound Of The Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle), A Kestrel For A Knave (Barry Hines), A Kind Of Loving (John Osborne)
Music: Paul Weller/The Jam, Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Pete Townshend. John Lennon, Roy Wood, Otis Redding, James Brown, Keith MoonSports: Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens, Tommie Smith and John Carlos (for highlighting and breaking down the colour barrier in sports). Pele, Jairzinho, Johann Cruyff, Zico, Rodney Marsh, Colin Bell, Stan Bowles, Frank Worthington, Alan Hudson, Tony Currie, Peter Osgood (all great footballers and entertainers). Bobby Moore, Franz Beckenbauer, Michel Platini, Marco Van Basten, Jean Tigana, Gianni Rivera, Dino Zoff, Joe Mercer, Brian Clough, Jimmy GreavesFilms/TV: Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Richard Harris, Ronnie Barker, John Thaw, Phillip Glenister, Ray Winstone, Malcolm McDowell, Francis Ford Coppola, Oliver Stone, Sergio Leone.Also all those people who whilst not in the public eye,without their invaluable contributions, this world would be a far worse place to live in. These people know who they are.