With thanks to many wonderful musicians too numerous etc etc., but especially Neil from Co Cork,

Brad man from Muswell man

The Ubiquitous Rob Masters,

McGraham McGrotty, Ronnie, Dennis & Simon, Larry Tolfree, Tim, Tim, Karen, Paul, Dick, Dave Dee dozy beaky Mick Sprick and Tich for being a brave soldier.

Kelvin, Dave and Simon.

Sam Malin Milan who wrote the words, sang the words, played the tunes and stayed as Cool as the wee small hours first footin' on Hogmanay morning on the Mull of Kintyre as she opened the show for the Sainted Bob.

The boys from back in the day at Cookes in Norwich and Chandlers too. All the loyal and long suffering afficionados who came back for more. The quick and the dead, the lingering and the lost.

Rod Mulcahy, Muttley, Jasper, Perry and Rog from the Hog - what larks Pip

Inspirational types like Henry Platt and Jimbo Warren (also from Co. Cork)

Patrick Arbuthnot the Pedal Steel player who endured my ridiculous jibes about Knitting Machines.

Bill Ward, without whose Gaffer Tape and soldering skills etc., Nick Crook the Sax, Mark the Piano, horns and everything. Everybody who ever Slugged and each and every fine soul who played in the Bert Weedon's Inspirations, Der Krobsen for yawning but mainly for introducing me to a world of top class drumming and Cameo too.

For the most splenetic revved up Rockabilly and R'n'B guitar playing since Mick Green, hats off to Andy Goble, who along with either Trev the rev or Andy Thurston on bass showed me that less can be much much more

For lending me the finest collection of Bluesers that a singer could ever fall across in the Festival House, I owe immeasurable thanks to Jo Laundy, the Bluestastic Brown Bottle herself. Really they were Albert Cooper's stupendous band and it is an honour to have even trod the same stage (or more likely the same bit of sticky pub carpet). Big mention too to Chris Hawkins, who even had the boyishness to be dumbstruck by Twink joining us on stage at the Marina Centre at one of the Tattoo Conventions we Slugged at.

For giving me the reference to the gig and subsequently many and fantastic gigs with the Sensational Soul Stealers, I owe a huge debt to the legendary singing talent of Sheree Boore.

Jack Parnell for being a Proper Geezer indeed, Stefano, Nick and all the many Stealers but especially Ingrid Amis who led me by the hand through my debut before a crowd of 1500 drunken Barristers, Judges and wannabe lawyers and last but by no means no but I'll say it anyway.

The Ace of Bass with a limitless talent and a pranged Audi GT, My dear late and much missed young mate Pete Dent, Purple Rose, Awakening, reluctant rehearser a Million terrible jokes but only one Thin Lizzy 12 bar ending. Thousands of Thanks.

Music, It's all good, some of it I may not like at first.

Ian Hunter and all the Mott family,

Ronno, Buffin, Pete Watts, Luther, Verden Allen & Morgan Fisher, Jaco and Steve Holley & Darrel Bath & Andy York in particular. Lindisfarne

Feelgoods and Lee Brilleaux in particular, Andre 3000/Outkast, Howlin Wolf

Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Janis Joplin,

Etta James and her perfect I'd rather go blind, Green on Red, Earth Wind & Fire, Primal Scream, Carol Kidd who still makes me shiver to hear her voice, The Quireboys, Neneh Cherry, The Who. Ella Fitzgerald, Michelle Shocked and Peggy Lee. Clint Eastwood & General Saint

The Kipper Family and The Screen Idols and Rita Ray & Darts

The Blind Boys of Alabama; Jools Holland. The Doors, 3Doors Down, R Kelly, Womack &; Womack, Kool and the Gang, Motorhead, Whitesnake and the Jan Kunk Trouser Experience. Mick Ronson, McFly, McBusted, Living Color and David Lee Roth with and without Steve Vai, Chick Corea and Louis Armstrong. Brown Bottle, Muff, 4D Jones/ Sparkletones/Keno Kings. CSNY and the MacGarrigle Sisters

Dave Edmunds, Rockpile & the Stray Cats. Roger McGough in Tottenham Court Road and Atilla the Stockbroker at the Albion Mills, Gwen Watford at the Other Place in Stratford. Marillion, Meatloaf, Maria Muldaur with Roy Buchanan. Jeff Healey, Poison and BB King, ZZ Top, Wet Wet Wet.

Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti. Fish, The Alarm, Georgia Satellites, Cowboy Junkies.

Neil Innes with and without the Rutles, 72% Tomato, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Bad Co and Free, Avril Lavigne and Maggie Bell but really not Chris Bloke and his Stormy Monday Blues and a terrible attitude thank you very much - I prefer Stormy Mundesley the Slugs way without all the cr@p thanks.

Van Morrison and Gary Moore and Thin Lizzy and Darts. Skunk Baxter

Spike Milligan, William Topaz McGonagall, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Rosie Vela and John Martyn not forgetting Stan Webb from Chicken Shack who had the good grace to stumble over my feet in Putney, quite by accident of course but nonetheless just as marvellous as the young dude at Foxhall Stadium in 1984 who asked me if I was the singer with Killer Hill.

and many many more