News
November 2024
Hi all, Richard here once more. Michele has been away on the high seas once again and will be back writing the news next month.
The Matt Monro world is very quiet at the moment, although we have uploaded to Matt’s YouTube channel a rarely-seen interview from the late 1970s in Australia.
December 1st would have been Matt’s 94th birthday and we will have a full-length interview for you all, and maybe – if it works – a podcast. Michele and I are working on that this month, so we’ll see how it goes.
Michele has been away on holiday on the Ambassador Ambience. However, she was called into action when a speaker on the cruise fell ill. Thankfully, she never travels without her laptop and her talks. The talk was so well received that she was asked back to do a second!
She has also been chatting with Mark Labbett – The Beast from The Chase and also bumped into Ritchie Peters (of Ritchie Peters & The For-tunes) and his brother Phil. The For-tunes were an R&B group who recorded for Decca in the mid 60’s. (not to be confused with the Fortunes, a different band).
Whilst she was away news came through of the death of Jack Jones. The Monros had known Jack for a long time and Michele was very sorry to hear the news. Matt and Jack got along well. Here is a photo from Matt’s collection of both of them together.
That’s about all for this month.
Hopefully Michele will have more news in December
All the best
Richard
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