Regrets, I have a view...
Our writers look back at events they missed out on
GROWING up, Muhammad Ali seemed the coolest, funniest, most talented man on earth.
When he refused to fight in Vietnam because “No Vietcong ever called me a n ***** ”, they stripped him of his world title and he was elevated from a man to a cause.
On an epic, steamy 1974 night in Zaire he came off the ropes in the 8th round against the beast-like George Foreman and KO’d him. All was right with the world again.
Oh, to have been a tsetse-fly on the wall at The Rumble in the Jungle, the greatest sport event of the last century, won by its ultimate hero. ONE minute I was feeling super smug about being on my sofa instead of in a crowded field after enduring an awful night in an uncomfortable, sweaty tent ... the next I was desperately wishing I was at Glastonbury to see Kylie Minogue this year.
This was the gig she was forced to cancel when she was battling breast cancer, and now here she was, years later, fighting fit and putting on an incredible show. Kylie at Glastonbury was a celebration, it wasn’t just a gig. TO say I was a Take That fan in my early teens (and, er, still) is under-egging it.
I saw them in concert, bought Smash Hits and was permanently plugged into my Walkman. OK, I didn’t quite call the helpline when they split in 1996, but I was close.
But it was Robbie Williams who really had my heart, so when he released his solo music I was obsessed.
Why then did I not get a ticket to “The Biggest Music
Event In British History” - Live at Knebworth?
Everyone there says it was the best gig ever. No Regrets?
That’s mine. IT was the biggest soap of the late 70s and early 80s and had 350 million people guessing “Who Shot JR”.
We would have given anything to be extras on the set of Dallas when Kristin Shepard (Mary Crosby) pulled the trigger in March 1979.
The drama set the fashion trends and kept us glued to the box every Saturday night for years.
Oh to have been in the wings in our shoulder pads, bouffant hair and bright blue eye shadow as the scheming sister-in-law did the dirty on Larry Hagman’s evil oil baron JR Ewing.