September 2025

After the sad demise of legendary Ozzy Osbourne last month, unfortunately the losses didn’t stop there, with the passing of Hulk Hogan, Connie Francis, Chuck Mangione, and Loni Anderson to name just a few of the greats. Although most had lived to a great age it doesn’t stop you questioning your own mortality and realizing just how young daddy died. Forty years feels like a lifetime ago and all I feel I can do to honour his name is to try and keep his legacy burning brightly.

Having said that I got a lovely email last week from my great friend at Boom Radio, Charlie Brown. He announced that his colleague Nick Bailey had cited it as official, that dad’s ‘On Days Like These’ is the favourite easy-listening track for Boom Light listeners. How fabulous is that? And on top of that dad also charts at No 3 for Walk Away, No 10 for Born Free, No 31 for Portrait of My Love and No 56 for Softly As I Leave You. I think that is cause for celebration.

Talk about celebrating, dad’s podcast is continuing to grow thanks to all your support and I was really excited to announce last month that we were featuring our first special guest. It was hard enough trying to find a time that worked for both Richard and my schedules but add a third person in the mix and we were lucky we could fit it in this year, but we somehow managed it.

Bobby and I have been friends for years and as well as being a thoroughly nice guy, he held his hand up as soon as I mentioned that I was hoping he’d been our first guest. One thing you can’t accuse this renowned star of stage and screen of is being shy or reserved and I can assure you it’s an interview you don’t want to miss. In fact, we talked for so long that we have had to split it into two podcasts so part one featured in August and part two will be up in a few days. It was fabulous fun and I hope you enjoy it as much as we all had fun making it.

‘Matt’s Kind of Podcast’ was launched on dad’s birthday last year and we are putting up one edition every month. So, make sure you pop by in the next day or two to catch the newest edition. If you’d like to listen to an older podcast, click the link below which will take you to the whole list.

https://podd6d.podbean.com/

Richard and I have been particularly busy over the last six weeks, not only working on our future podcasts but we have also interviewed some wonderful surprise guests who will feature on future episodes and they are not to be missed.

Although Richard and I speak most days and I bombard him with emails, we don’t see much of each other as we live hours apart but last week my great friend came to ‘Monro Towers’ for the weekend to film some rare possessions of dad which will pop up on our official channel in the near future. As well as recording a couple of podcasts live, we also plotted out our work load for the next 12 months. It seems crazy but the podcasts need researching, clips need to be found, we have to generate a new video for the YouTube site each month as well as ‘shorts’ and do the updates monthly. It really does eat into our time so knowing what our schedules will be each month will make our lives easier….. she says, lol

It might seem quite mad but I am back on Ambassador in October for three weeks and December is a complete write-off for Richard, not even time for phone calls so we are trying to achieve some breathing space. You know what they say about the best-laid intentions.

Although we have garnered several thousand listeners each month, we haven’t had much feedback and questions have been light so if you have a topic or question you would like to see covered then please email either Richard of myself and we’ll do out best to cover it. Now into out 10^th episode and with several thousand listeners each month I cannot believe not one of you has a question, suggestion or comment to make. Don’t be shy, we make these for you and having your input would be extra special.

Dad’s YouTube channel frequently features rare television performances, interviews and shorts but don’t worry if you weren’t with us from the very beginning as the channel still has all the ones you may have missed by not visiting yet. In fact, Aviator, one of our partners on the site has managed to unearth and license several rare finds so watch out for those during the next few months.

It’s all totally free and if you register, the site will send you a reminder every time something new is added. It would be amazing to hit the 200,000-subscriber mark so please tell all your friends to visit us and help us grow so that I can keep dad’s legacy of songs burning bright. If everyone told just one person to subscribe, it would make a huge difference to our numbers. Please don’t think we make money out of new people subscribing, it’s not that at all, it’s the prestige of making the channel as popular is it can be.

Later in the year we are putting together another audio compilation which will be available on dad’s YouTube channel in the near future. The working title at the moment is “Matt at the BBC Volume 2’ so watch this space. There has been a small hiccup in that we are waiting for clearance from the BBC but as soon as we have that we will let you know the actual title and the date of release.

Don’t forget to visit dad’s very own YouTube channel – https://www.youtube.com/c/MattMonroOfficial

I know you’ve all heard this before but in light of an Argentinean interview dad did which landed on our desks recently, please, please let us know if you have any rare footage, (even if you taped it illegally, lol), jingles or photos of dad.

While I can understand that in the old days recording shows by the public was difficult, I cannot believe that there is no recording of dad’s Barbican concert from 1985, one of the last he did. There are also dozens of jingles still to be found although they are hard to find as the artist is not accredited to the product. Richard and I have spent months and months listening to product jingles that we know that dad was involved in and we, well to be honest Richard, has found several over the years so come on all you diehard fans, take a look in your attics, even if you have reel-to-reel tapes we have the equipment to listen to it. Fingers crossed.

I thank you for all your messages and emails about my health, and while it is true, I suffered a relapse in January and am mainly confined to a wheelchair, wild horses won’t stop me pushing dad’s wonderful legacy of music he left behind. Thank you so much for all your kind words, it is lovely to know that you all care.

Once again, I hope you have a happy and healthy year and I look forward to touching base with you all in October. In the meantime, stay safe and keep spreading the MM legacy.

Much love

Michele xx