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OK. I confess. I'm writing this a few months after the event. What can I say? I've been slack!
Phillip and Peter celebrated 12 years together with a nice little soiree at their home. We ran into a few familiar faces at the event - some faces that we know from around Sydney and some that we know from around the Wagga area. The world is really a pretty small place.
Anyway, they served a nice little round of nibbles and quite a few rounds of bubbles. All in all a very nice evening.
We attended a slightly more unusual concert this month. After putting off his tour because of a broken wrist last year, Burt Bacharach is in town! If you don't know who he is then shame on you. Let's just say that he is enough of a world renowned legend for the spell checker to correct me in the spelling of his mane. How many people have their names in spell checkers?
Now, Burt is no spring chicken. In fact, he's 80 years old. Despite this we got to see him tinkling the ivories at the Sydney Opera House where he performed many of the huge number of hits that he's penned over the years. Still unsure?
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Close to you (The Carpenters)
I just don't know what to do with myself (Dusty Springfield)
Always something there to remind me (Naked Eyes)
What the world needs is love (Dionne Warwick)
What's new pussycat? (Tom Jones)
Alfie (Cilla Black)
I say a little prayer (Aretha Franklin)
This guys in love with you (Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass)
Raindrops keep falling on my head (Johnny Mathis)
That's what friends are for (Rod Stewart)
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You hear this guys music in elevators everywhere. You just don't realise it's him!
Anyway, the concert was a sellout. Burt sat at his piano and chatted, leaned on his piano and chatted, sang (or rather spoke the words - his voice is almost gone now) and generally took us on a trip over the last 40 years of hit songs. He was accompanied by a cut down version of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. It was huge fun.
Sam's boy, Chris, is back in town so we had a nice dinner to welcome him back to the real world. The following weekend, while Greig took a trip to Byron Bay, we had more of a welcome for him, but I won't go into details here. Needless to say, he was thoroughly welcomed. :-)
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