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Thread #78416 Message #1440872
Posted By: greg stephens
22-Mar-05 - 03:34 PM
Thread Name: Review: New Lonnie Donegan Album
Subject: RE: Review: New Lonnie Donegan Album
"After I saw him in 1956...I had no doubt what I was going to do with my life". Well put, Roger Rettig, you could have been writing my autobiography as well as yours, and as well as thousands of others. I went and bought a guitar as soon as I heard "Rock Island Line" in 1956 at the age of 11, and set about constructing a life that involved singing with it. I'm still at it, and I've never had a day-job! And I will still, at the drop of a hat, sing Rock island Line. Lonnie turned on a whole generation. Fan-bloody-tastic.