Rockin' On Like Fury
In New Zealand 8
GUESS WHO CAME TO DINNER.
Billy Fury Fan Club Style.
This prize was auctioned at Billy’s Birthday ‘do’ in April & sold for $600 to Averill & Warwick Norman. As well as the ‘Dinner’ they received clothing vouchers & hair ‘do’s which were donated. T.B.B.F.C. was also donated the meat and wine.
Saturday 7th August was the first available date to suit everyone………..
Guests were due to arrive at 6 p.m.
At 5.30 p.m. SCENE: Moya’s Main Bedroom.
Complete & utter pandemonium as our 9 celebs & 4 maids fought for mirror space. Julian Clary’s make up bag, which is the size of a small town took up most of the space on the en-suite floor!
At 5.40 pm. Moya in a panic – still in dressing gown, no make up on,
hair in dire need of attention with 20 minutes to go & everyone shouting: Moya have you got????? Moya where’s…?????Moya what’s…..????? The place looked like a warzone with costumes, wigs, various items of clothing, make up, hair spray, glitter, boobs & bums, glasses & bottles of wine everywhere!!! I was about to insert the contact lenses – looked up to see 8 faces peering into the mirror from behind in various stages of undress. No shame – it’s a good thing we’re all really good mates & have seen it all before! Nowhere to hide ~ Lulu did make an attempt to change her bra in the wardrobe – but Elton John had the same idea – but not with a bra! He was dissmissed in no uncertain terms with just ‘two words’! One of the maids was putting on her lipstick in the sliding, mirrored wardrobe door when it slid open and Lulu was looking back at her!
6 p.m. Lights, Camera, Action: 4 French Maids in place by the front door as our guests Averill & Warwick arrived. Meet & Greet, drinks in hand I introduced our Billy Fury ‘style’ celebs who appeared one by one wearing their Billy badges (except Billy & E.W. – who got Billy’d later) thru the ‘Stars In Their Eyes’ smoke to their very own ‘signature tunes’
· ROBBIE: (as himself): Introducing our first celebrity tonite – it’s none other than our very own ‘Legend In His Own Mind’…….Robbie Robson. Stone In Love With You.
· ROSE: Coming up ‘Shouting’ from Bonnie Scotland ~ It’s Lulu. Shout.
· DOUG: (Sue’s husband): You’ll say BILLY WHO? when you meet our next guest – He’s a Billy who’s very hot in the city tonight ~ Here’s Billy Idol. Hot In The City.
· LEANNE: (Robbie’s wife) There’s nothing GREASEy about our next celeb. She’s the one any fella would want to get Physical with ~ She’s Olivia Newton-John. You’re The One That I Want.
· PETE: Our next distinguished guest is no stranger tonite ~ It’s Frank Sinatra. Strangers In The Night.
· DANIEL: Coming up the yellow brick road and thru the smoke if he’s still standing ~ It’s Elton John. Rocket Man.
· CHRIS: Now here’s someone who like a warm hand on his entrance ~ Please welcome Julian Clary. No music but wot he said was very funny about him coming up behind Elton John.
· BRIAN: We are so lucky to have someone with us here tonite who SOME would say was The King Of Rock’n’Roll ~ He’s here tonite Takin’ Care Of Business’ ~ Mr. Elvis Presley. The Wonder Of You.
· ROSS: Last, but by no means least ~ MY King Of Rock’n’Roll ~ The Man who is paramount in my life. If this beautiful man hadn’t come into my life we wouldn’t be here tonite and OUR paths would never have crossed. My Billy Fury. Halfway To Paradise.
DINNER (which had been prepared earlier by the maids) lasted over a period of appriox 2.1/2 hours with impromptu song & dance interludes.
THE MENU consisted of :
· Pumkin Soup, french bread & bread rolls.
· Entrée of crumbed asparagus,egg & cheese in asparagus sauce.
· Fillet Eye Steak marinated in port, garlic, soya sauce & olive oil. Baby whole potatoes & salad.
· Choice of – or both – Chocolate Mud Cake & Strawberry Flan.
· Cheeseboard
· After Dinner Mints.
· OODLES OF WINE.
The hilarity, chit-chat, singing, dancing & a cheeky competition goin’on between Robbie & Brian (which I’m not allowed to mention) continued well into the night – I’ll rephrase that – into the NEXT MORNING! With good singers amongst us (i.e. Robbie, Brian, Ross, Chris) and not so good B.V.’s (Backing Vocals – i.e. Leanne, Sue & Moi – with our wine bottle microphones – all we were allowed!!!) we kept the guests entertained ~
I don’t think Elvis Wotsisname ever had girl BV’s ‘on stage’ before and
I thought we did a really good job of This Time The Girl Is Gonna Stay!
– until the remainder full of dutch courage got into the Karaoke thankz to Robbie’s BILLYant sound system and it was every man/woman for him/herself, our male singers looked on with cotton wool poking 2 inches out of their ears!
34 empty wine bottles were counted and carted out the next day – including 12 empty French Wine bottles which Averill & Warwick brought and took the empties home to dispose of – and only 15 people at the party ~ I was drinking Chatau Cardboard – so that left 14, 4 designated drivers who drank only to the limit – that left 10… 34 divided by 10 meant 10 people drank 3 bottles of wine each! God (Billy) knows who was drinking out of whose glass all nite as glasses were put down and senior moments took over as you couldn’t remember where you put yours so drank out of any bloody glass. I could tell who picked mine up by the looks on their faces and comments such as Sh** or Wot the F***’* that?! Lemon water belonging to the designated drivers was having the same effect on the dedicated drinkers!
The Dial a Drivers who came to pick up Averill & Warwick got lost – he phoned 4 times, don’t know who or wot state the person was in who was giving them directions!!!!! Must have been me!
The last carload left singing down the driveway thru open windows –
I’ve Had The Time Of My Life!
Overniters, who took over every bed in the house emerged Sunday morning into the kitchen - after 3 hours sleep (if one was lucky) looking decidedly seedy. Offers of a full cooked breakfast unanimously declined.
But Hey ~ It was a BILLYant nite and another success for The Billy Fury Fan Club!
P.S. St.Ron escaped to Keith’s 50 kms away for the nite!
Footnote: Maggie & I decided after the event – that if we ever did this again – one of us must stay sober: The Cheeseboard platter was discovered out on a table on the patio at approx 2 am.where it was put 4 hours earlier to keep cool still wrapped up and the kg of grapes for the platter still in the fridge. The chives,which was meant to go into the sauce for the meat was still in the fridge – along with the parsley which was meant to have been sprinkled on the soup with a drizzle of cream. The After Dinner Mints was found by Brian on a shelf in the dining room.
Ah well – you can’t win ‘em all and no one’s perfect!
The Guests of Honour Averill & Warwick
Table Setting The Maids Gotcha !!!!
Meet the Stars Dirty Dancing with Daniel In The Gateux
Moya with the 2 Kings
Robbie and Elvis After dinner mints