And now I hope
You'll be with me tomorrow

Happy Fifties Roggy- you're crazier every day

“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.”

…so said the great and late actress Lucille Ball…well I think I live fairly honestly, but I eat fast, and being an original member of Duran Duran I cannot (thanks to the wonderful wikipedia) lie about my age so…it’s the time to embrace a new half century, which incidently, in cricketing terms, is definetly only half way to glory!

When I was younger my favourite James Dean quotation was ‘Dream as if you will live forever…live as if you will die today.’ Pretty cool to follow when you are 21, but today I will leave you with this one from the 19th century American poet Lucy Larcom: ‘Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come’!

Many many thanks for all the kind messages, cards and gifts that have come over the last week or so.

Roger x

p.s – As a gift to you all , I have made a list of all the silly names for hairdressers that I have noticed whilst driving around London and just had to share them with you..

Curl Up And Dye
A Cut Above
Hair Apparent
Hair We Go
Fringe Benefits
Hair Today
The Final Cut
Splitting Hairs
Perm-anent Beauty

It isn't very difficult to see why you are the way you are- doesn't take a genius to realize that sometimes life is hard. It's gonna take time but you'll just have to wait, you're gonna be fine but in the meantime come over here, let me wipe your tears away. Come a little nearer baby cause you'll heal over- heal over someday and I don't wanna hear you tell yourself that these feelings are in the past, you know it doesn't mean they're off the shelf because pain's built to last. Everybody sails alone but we can travel side by side. Even if you fail you know that no one really minds. Come over here, don't hold on but don't let go- I know it's so hard, you've got to try to trust yourself. I know it's so hard, so hard

When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in anyway.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors.

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways,
My independence seems to vanish in the haze.
But every now and then I feel so insecure,
I know that I just need you like I've never done before.

'Algo se había roto entre nosotros'

y cada vez mas gente se agrega a esa lista

We went through the process of John coming offstage to take more drugs three or four times until we finally got the filming done.
Unbelievable.
Looking back, it was all so surreal. When I replay it in my mind it's like watching the sort of mayhem you'd expect to find in a Quentin Tarantino movie. John would later be quoted as saying that he felt as if his body has left him and his soul was pinned to the ceiling- and that's exactly how he looked: as if his soul had left him. Anybody looking down on us from the ceiling of that hotel room the night before would have witnessed a morbid sight, with the stark red of all the blood against the white sheets and me panicking as I cradled him.
We got through the video shoot, but I think maybe we both lost a bit of our souls that night.

And I need to be patient and I need to be brave
Need to discover how I need to behave
And I'll find out the answers when I know what to ask
But I speak a different language and everybody's speaking too fast
Miniature disasters and minor catastrophes

You know there's no need to hide away
You know I tell the truth
We are just the same
I can feel everything you do
Hear everything you say
Even when you're miles away
Cause I am me, the universe and you