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Castaway
1 appearance
Boxing promoter who has changed the face of the sport and worked with the biggest names including Mike Tyson, Joe Calzaghi, and Ricky Hatton.
On the island
Eight records
This is the first film I ever remember going to see when I was a kid, and I see it at the Angel Cinema in Islington, and it was uh from a film called uh Calamity Jane.
I was still at school and it came out and I can remember one of the older kids said to me, You want to hear the original version and that's by Barrett Strong and I searched high and low and got it and I think it's a cracking song and I enjoy it.
I'm a massive, massive Beatles fan. I mean, it is like poetry listening to this, and it's a I think it's just a beautiful track.
Don't Worry 'Bout MeFavourite
It's an old song, again, from when I was a kid. I heard it, and my wife Susan and I are big fans of Billie Holiday. We listen to a lot of that at home
My next song is one of my heroes, Frank Sinatra, and I think one of the best songs he's ever sung
as you gather, I like soul music's temperament. This is this uh The Temptation's one of my favorite, favourite songs
it's a favorite s song of mine written by William Nelson
Great song, listen. It does it brings back a lot of good memories for me. It's Arifa Franklin and it's Doctor Feelgood.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:03If you fight your corner, then winning must be important.
I don't know if it's winning's important. I think that if I feel I'm right about something, then I'll fight my corner... then I'll take it all the way I can to to get my point across.
Presenter asks
6:08How old were you when your parents broke up?
they split up and went back together. They had one of those sort of relationships and finally split up probably when I was about fourteen, thirteen, fourteen.
Presenter asks
12:22What did you learn about yourself [in therapy]?
I think you let a lot of stuff out... You look at why you did things and why things happen and how you would deal with them in the future, and that's that's what I think I learnt from it.
Presenter asks
13:33Why is it [that you meet the parents of any young boxer before you sign them up]?
The keepsakes
The book
Robert Louis Stevenson
It'd be appropriate, but I do love it. And it's one of the first books I remember as a kid reading, and he scored the library just off of Rosebury Avenue in Finnsbury called the it was called Treasure Island and I remember getting the book out and reading it.
The luxury
a mellow grapevine with a bag of Pomoro
I've been struggling with this, but I think it'd be a grapevine, probably a mellow grapevine with a bag of Pomoro. So when I try and cultivate myself some wind.
because I'd like to meet the parents and let them know who they're dealing with, because you're really learning trusting their career in my hands.
Presenter asks
17:16What do you make of [Mike Tyson]?
A complex character, very manipulative. If you don't agree with him, you don't work for him. If if he looks out the window and it's pitch black and he says the sun's shining, if you say the sun isn't shining, then they're gone.
Presenter asks
22:37What do you remember [about being shot]?
I got out of the car and I heard a bang and looked round and... I thought it was a joke first of all. I see this guy standing there with a gun and he was shaking like this... Next minute I heard another bang and I felt this pain in my side... I could feel my throat gurgling as the blu'cause it went through my lung and the blood was coming up
“I never think back to the bad times. I think if you do that I think it drags you down. I'm I've always been an optimist. If I do sit and think about bad things then I could really bring myself down so I choose not to do that.”
“I'm in the business of building or creating monsters, you may say. I've got to sell them, so I've got to bring the press's attention to this box that I've got, you know, and I'll bang the drum. But I'm creating a monster, and that monster might come back and bite me on the backside, and they'd believe it.”
“You've got to have something to get up for in the morning. I mean, you get up for your family, you get up for your, you know, whatever, but you need something, I think, for your soul. I don't want boxing to be my soul.”