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yeah Pike's hotel with Fame you know was it was a unique hotel when you stayed in
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touch you knew you were in pikes you knew you're in this special place it was unique every room was special so they
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had attracted all different sorts of people you know whether it be Frank Zappa Julio iglesia wham George Michael
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Spandau Ballet and of course Freddie Mercury he had his 40th birthday party there but
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there were so many stars that came through the hotel it was like a revolving door of stars how would you
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describe your dad at the bike so tell what was he like Calvin what are your thoughts when you think back and well I
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think back of my father going back to my first memories of him and growing up with a character that was larger than
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life he was a very very adventurous and very tenacious man he wasn't frightened of let's say tackling many things and
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incredibly charismatic good-looking and yeah I think it's his charisma that really managed to bring people the first
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time for instance that Julio Glaser turned up he arrived at the hotel my father was on top of the ladder changing
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a light bulb and Julio walked in and he said I'm looking for Tony Pike and my father on
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top attorney Pike and Julio done said I'm gonna like you because there was a naturalness about him there was a real
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person as as opposed to let's say someone pretending to be someone else so yeah he was actually a very affable
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person yeah very charming cheeky smart made sure people had a great time absolutely I think he was really he was
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trying to deal with people as humans as opposed to stars [Music]