Friday, 21 April 2006
Sent an email to Richard
Herring to say I had nicked his idea of writing
a daily blog to kick start the writing process (I'm
sure the idea is not original to him but I decided to
do it after reading his blog). I don't know him but
got a very pleasant email back saying good luck with
it etc. Strange things can happen when you email someone
you don't know. A few months ago I was listening to
my ipod on "shuffle" where it mixes up the
order of your favourite songs. Two songs it played back
to back were 'To Sir With Love' (Lulu) and 'Born Free'
(Matt Monro).
I knew Born Free was written by Don Black but had a
suspicion that 'To Sir With Love' was as well. When
I got home I 'googled'
Don Black and his web site came up. Not only had
he wrote the lyrics to both of those songs but also
to many others on my play list. I decided to send him
an email; just saying how much I enjoyed his songs etc.
It's weird, I would have never have done something like
that a few years ago, in fact I would have choked with
embarrassment at the thought of it. Anyway, cut a long
story short I got a very nice reply saying thanks then
about a week later I got another email from him asking
me to ring him. Now I've been asked to write a musical
with Don Black. Go on, email someone you don't know...
you never know what could happen.
