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Back to one of my favourite cities in the world - Copenhagen. We had a great hotel and some time to look around. One of my all-time heroes came to see me: the great Ed Thigpen, who I had met in Paris in the early sixties with the Oscar Peterson Trio when they were on tour with Ella Fitzgerald, part of the Norman Granz 'Jazz At The Philharmonic' concerts.

Some weeks before the tour, Warren had produced a magnificent boxed set of four of my scores: 'The Harpist', 'Great Natural Wonders Of The World', 'Moon Power' and 'Terminal Choice'. Also the soundtrack to 'The American Way'. He had worked long and hard editing various cues and writing sleeve notes to make the final package something that I was very proud of. A masterful piece of production. Erik had been gracious enough to let me sell them at front of house. By 29th April, they finally arrived in Copenhagen, minus a few missing boxes. I was very excited and had some good feedback from people who had purchased them, apart from one, who couldn’t figure out why there wasn’t a drum solo in a film about a beautiful harpist.

Warren lost his case on one flight en route to a concert that turned out to be part of a festival with Nazareth and Bonnie Tyler. Two days still wearing the same clothes was not ideal as can be seen by the note he stuck on his hotel door. Five minutes before we went on, it was found and we went on stage. After the first piece there was silence. And the second and third! We where dying a death. I then noticed there were five bars selling drinks in the hall. Everyone had a pint in their right hand and you can't clap with one hand!

The drummer in Copenhagen.
With Warren and the great Ed Thigpen.
Backstage with Ed.
Festival poster: now there's a line-up!	The festival T-shirt.
"We seem to be missing a suitcase."	Onstage at the festival after the arrival of the missing suitcase.
The note pinned on Warren's hotel door during the two day wait for the missing suitcase.	The Tivoli Gardens. The first time I played here was in 1958 with Marty Wilde.
During the last few weeks, we have been amused at some of the heated discussions going on in various fan magazines and web sites as to whether Hank played a Fender or a Gretsch on 'Apache' (get a grip!). As we had plenty of time before we went on, Lionall put a Gretsch at the front of stage for a bit of fun.	The 'Works' boxed set, produced by Warren, features 4 soundtracks of my TV/film projects: 'The Harpist', 'Great Natural Wonders Of The World', 'Terminal Choice' and 'Moonpower'. All copies were personally signed by myself and are available from Bucks Music and record shops.

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