The Tube was great, we used to watch it live on Friday before going down the pub, rather than straight in at 6pm when they opened. It was organised chaos sometimes, but always watchable.
He acted the part of a main character in the 1974 film 'Stardust' IE he played the part of being the manager of David Essex's rock star character. All through the movie David Essex's character believed that Faith's character was a trustworthy friend. However, as Essex's character is dying in an ambulance at the end of the movie, Faith's character screams " you can't die ... I own half of you " !
Do you not need to have qualifications to be an FA? I appreciate that rules may not have been as stringent in the 1980s. What qualifications did our Terry-Nelhams-Wright-Adam-Faith actually have in this regard? Michael Winner said he lost money on investments upon which Old Faithless advised and Leo Sayer said that his money had been mismanaged by Unfaithful i.e.he had spent lots of it and that this wasn’t discovered by Sayer until his own divorce was being settled. I watched The Money Channel for about 2 mins in 2000 and it was even more painful than his singing. My mum liked him bless. I say this in the nicest possible way. I liked him as an actor in Budgie etc.and I appreciate he is now passed and has a family. That all said between his financial misadventures, mismanagement, alleged serial adultery and leaving his long suffering Mrs to contend with the bailiffs after he and his feather cut went over the rainbow bridge, I am not sure I would have trusted him with a budgie never mind a bank account.
I completely agree. The whole thing sounded cowboy, as dodgy as his deals when he was playing the character Budgie. I fondly remember him in that too, especially the opening scene which always fascinated me as a kid, where he nicks the case of money out of the car, starts running and falls over and all the dosh comes out of the case. I can remember my late mother always telling me that the reason he tripped up was that he did something wrong and whenever you do anything wrong, bad things always happen to you. I guess this idea is more popularly known as karma today. There is some truth in it, but, of course, like most people, I too had to learn this the hard way...wait...did I say learn? Well, they do say we live and learn but the truth is we live....we NEVER bloody learn, not really, we just get too old to do the same stupid things we WOULD do if we were still young and we instead, turn into old hypocrites, conveniently forgetting all the stupid things we did once at that age and telling the young how stupid THEY are being, such is life. Best wishes.
