TheLastManLunching

I am an ex-Londoner, who now lives full-time in France and, much to the amusement of my French neighbours, I drive a car from yesteryear, a 1968 Morris Minor Traveller, (occasionally on the wrong side of the road, too). I try to grow vegetables and fruit to eat, but mainly use them to keep a large population of snails and slugs thriving in my back garden. After spending my early life in the music industry, I have finally written my first book, The Last Man Lunching and Other Such Tales, the humorous memoirs of my books fictitious hero, AJ Frobisher, an Officer and Gentleman. The book chronicles some of the highly amusing catastrophes and disasters of a shambolically-lived life, (and, no, it is not autobiographical!). It is intended to make you laugh and I have set up a website, http://tonycraig.org where you can download an excerpt. It is available as a digital book at Amazon, Apple's iBookstore, the Sony Reader ebook store, Barnes & Noble etc. I now post a lighthearted blog on my website on the Perils of Living as An Englishman in France where there is also a web page devoted to my music from my time in the music industry. Back then, I had songs recorded on most of the major record labels from EMI to Polydor to A&M to Sony/CBS to RCA etc. I even have a Gold Disc! I also wrote advertising jingles for my sins (well, also for money!). If you ever bought Dutch Butter in the 70s in the UK, it couldve been me who helped persuade you to do so! I love la vie française! I havent quite yet got a beret, but I can be seen wandering back from the bakers with a baguette under my arm. I thought Id miss London, but theres lots to do where I live and a vibrant theatre scene. When I now go to London, its as a tourist. I can even smile and sit back smugly when the train Im on in the Tube gets stuck in the tunnel! Living by the sea where rush hour traffic is all of three cars can de-stress anyone! Finally, if I have to give one Trivial Pursuit question about myself that no one would ever get right, it would be, What was the name of the artist, who recorded one of my songs, which then became my first ever single record to be released? The answer is Clare Torrey, the wonderful singer, who gave that amazing, virtuoso, vocal performance on The Great Gig In The Sky on the epic Pink Floyd album, Dark Side of the Moon. (Damn! Now everyone knows the answer!). If you want to hear this record, then go to 'My Music' page on my website, http://tonycraig.org!