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Thread #60018 Message #3976310
Posted By: Vic Smith
12-Feb-19 - 08:44 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Miles Wootton (1934-2019)
Subject: RE: Obit: Miles Wootton (1934-2019) - died Feb 9, 2109
The biography of Miles quoted by Joe above from the Allmusic site is largely correct except where it says:-
Wootton subsequently plunged into a full-time career of singing and writing, with a number of artists covering his songs
This is incorrect. Miles was a full-time teacher of foreign languages at schools and colleges in Brighton, although he did retire a few years early in health grounds. We had many conversations over the decades that I knew him about the joys of being a semi-pro musician with a daytime teaching job - we still had an income even in the lean months for gigs and a professional pension to look forward to when we retired.