Some years ago we bought tickets for a gig at the old Lewisham concert hall [now Lewisham Theatre] It was billed as 'An Evening with Andres Segovia' and for some reason we thought it was part of the comedy festival and local hero Spike Milligan might show up. Bugger me, come the night who should shuffle onto the stage but this dapper old gentleman carrying a guitar who sat down on the spotlit stool and for over the next hour played the most beautiful music with barely a squeak or a clunk despite having fingers obviously wracked with arthritis.

Of course it was Segovia, on a Sunday night! In Lewisham! Who'd have thought it? Glad to say I was there!