Birth date

23/05/57

19/07/61

Toy boy! (well, slightly)

Birthplace

Toronto

Belper, Derbyshire

Birth sign

Gemini

Cancer

Height

5'0"

5'9"

5'10"

Weight

101 lbs

133 lbs

140 lbs

Still the proverbial 'string bean' after all these years and certainly NOT one of those muscle-bound hulks (The 'Magazine Men') in the 'Big Kiss' video on the 'Dollar Shooting Stars' site!

Hair

Blonde

Dark brown shot with red/ginger

Same, plus a few streaks of grey

Still masses of it, though! (Yesss!)

Eyes

Hazel

Grey/Blue

Getting greyer and more bloodshot

That's what sitting at these damned computers does for you! The curse of being an amateur Web-head.

Education

Tiffin Grammar School

Belper High School

University of Derby

Home

London

Belper, Derbyshire

Now Thereze has moved to Australia it'd have been even more unmanageable (see below in any case).

Family details

1 Older Sister

1 Older Brother

Hobbies

Astrology

Archaeological digs

Web design

Pets

None

None

Married

No

No

Thereze definitely IS, now!

Favourite Groups/ Artistes

Beatles/Eagles/David Bowie

Would have said then, The Jam/Secret Affair/The Inmates/Lew Lewis Reformer/Rolling Stones (the early Mod years thereof)/Yardbirds/Bo Diddley

DEFINITELY Dollar now, plus the same and a whole load of Northern Soul stuff, discovered since there was a whole series of compilation albums of old Soul rarities that came out over the mid eighties – ten years after the main Northern Soul event, but I got there in the end! (Probably ultimately inspired by The Maisonettes)

Probably I'd have been thought a little on the unsophisticated and rough-and-ready side here, in general and that American Soft Rock of The Eagles is the idea of purgatory to an up-for-it dance party animal like me! I DID like boogie-ing away to David Bowie's 'Jean Genie' at the time, though – but of course, being a Mod, I called it Rhythm & Blues as opposed to Heavy Rock – well, you've got to keep up SOME standards!

Favourite food

Chocolate

Toasted Sandwiches (the 'hot' thing of '79!) That's the snack I'd have probably been making when 'Win Or Lose' came on the radio – with the old 'Breville', of course

My special home-pickled mackerel with lemon is my latest invention.

I DO cook a 'mean' pear and chocolate sponge pudding, though. Does that count as 'chocolate'?

Favourite drink

Champagne

Cinzano Bianco (Coke if I'm feeling really 'Mod' and non-alcoholic)

Ginger Beer (The most fun you can have if you can't drink.)

I'm glad I don't drink now for medical reasons and that, therefore, I've dropped that awful concoction, which no doubt I'd have thought terribly 'sophisticated' at the time. How I enjoyed it is anybody's guess. We could have drunk those non-alcoholic champagne-like beverages together that they've developed since then, with all sorts of wonderful things in then like guarana, which 'improves one's social life' as it were – let's make luhve, babee!

Car

MG Midget

Trent Bus

Trent/Barton Bus

OK, I'll be very 'Modern' and you do the driving!

Previous jobs

None before show business

Clothes shop assistant

Too many dead end ones that I'd care to think of before I became a translator

I WAS the Head Baker at the Visitors' Restaurant at Kedleston Hall, though. Would David be interested in my hand-made rolls for his hamburgers and hot dogs?

First record bought

Please Please Me (The Beatles)

The Deep Purple Album (Deep Purple) (Yes, in the dim and distant days before this era I WAS a 'head-banger'!)

The first one I remember buying with any affection still has to be The Jam's 'All Mod Cons', from Boots Records and Tapes Department, The Eagle Centre, Derby on a bright Summer's day in the late seventies

Favourite own record

Shooting Star

I hadn't started my brilliant recording career, yet

I STILL haven't started my brilliant recording career, yet

Dollar's rendition of that 'Fred and Ginge' musicals vintage 'They Can't Take That Away From Me' on 'Reborn' does remind me of a Sixties-Souled-Up version of the song that I've invented and sing to myself. If a company wants to take me up on that I'll give them my number.

Favourite TV show

Fawlty Towers

The Water Margin

Reborn In The USA...

...finally redeeming itself by bringing Dollar back for the 'consolation performance' in the final – and WHAT a performance it was!

Childhood hero

Margot Fonteyn

OK, if you're talking about fancy footwork, Thereze, Muhammad Ali (Fred Astaire also gets a look-in here, for the same reasons)

Practising the famous 'shuffle' and dance around the ring as a child stood me in good stead for Classic Soul dancing in later life. I'd have NEVER made a boxer, though, (for pretty obvious reasons!)

Superstitions

Picking up the telephone after three rings

Can't remember

NOT saying 'white rabbits' at the beginning of months containing an 'R' in their name (blame my sister-in-law!)

As a 'Good Modernist' I'm not really supposed to have things like superstitions, but you can't take chances, can you?

Likes

Sunshine, being with friends

Long walks in the country, dancing all night, gothic cathedrals

Same, (I DO still try the latter!) except I've become a REAL Modernist now and have dropped the cathedrals for Art Deco/Modernist architecture

Dislikes

Rooms crowded with tall people

Those people who gave me the sack at that clothes shop!

The ruling group on Derby City Council!...

...for still threatening to demolish Derby Bus Station – an Art Deco classic – but wait, latest news is that they've lost overall control in the 1.05.2003 elections to a possible Lib/Dem-Tory ruling group – I get to rediscover that 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' video, Labour have gone on the City Council; maybe there IS a God after all!