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Never meet your heroes

3 years ago

Writer:

Ian Callum | Designer

Date:

8 May 2022

They say never meet you heroes. It’s why I never went to see Bowie live. I didn’t want to be disappointed in discovering The Thin White Duke was actually someone else. Of course, I regret that now.

A few years ago while I was still at Jaguar, my journalist friend and now colleague, Andrew Frankel, asked me to take part in one of those random question articles. I was flattered as it was for Motor Sport magazine, a monthly I’d enjoyed and admired for many years. I can’t remember all of them, but the one I enjoyed most was ‘if you had one car, one road and one tank of fuel left in the world, what would it be?’

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Never meet your heroes

They say never meet you heroes. It’s why I never went to see Bowie live. I didn’t want to be disappointed in discovering The Thin White Duke was actually someone else. Of course, I regret that now.

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