just before people started coming in and i went out to one of the auditoriums, so i m looking at an empty stadium, more or less, and i do my lines for the last time, just on my own, very quietly, and i d just finished, and from behind me, i hear the applause from two hands and it s two girls from the cleaning crew who were behind me. they said, very nice, son. you ll be all right. and that was an amazing personal moment. then, i go back up, we get changed, we come down, it felt as though i shook hands with everybody in england on the way down, and they all shook hands with everybody else in england! and the kind of the excitement. for all the people who weren t so called professionals, they were the ones who were completely and utterly lit up with the joy of this and so, you couldn t then get, you know, all worked up. for all of us, we had to do it was a sense of such unbelievable pride, and you saw bradley wiggins out there and he starts it all off, and then you thought, my go
coming in and i went out to one of the auditoriums, so i m looking at an empty stadium, more or less, and i do my lines for the last time, just on my own, very quietly, and i d just finished, and from behind me, i hear the applause from two hands and it s two girls from the cleaning crew who were behind me. they said, very nice, son. you ll be all right. and that was an amazing personal moment. then, i go back up, we get changed, we come down, it felt as though i shook hands with everybody in england on the way down, and they all shook hands with everybody else in england! and the kind of the excitement. for all the people who weren t so called professionals, they were the ones who were completely and utterly lit up with the joy of this and so, you couldn t then get, you know, all worked up. for all of us, we had to do it was a sense of such unbelievable pride, and you saw bradley wiggins out there and he starts it all off, and then you thought, my god, this is an amazing momen
it was like hearing two nuclear physicists talk about the rhythm of comedy very, very serious, for something that was about to be hysterical. then, i m hearing danny boyle going down to the other end of the corridor. he s talking jk rowling off the edge because she s got a story to read, and all i can hear is, i m not a professional, i ve never done this before! and the place is rocking. meantime, carol hemming, who i m working with, is trying to stick two isambard kingdom brunel sideburns on the side of my face and everything is moving and i m starting to shake, i m so nervous. so, then, on the way down to the sort of entrance, i had to go down because i needed to calm my nerves. it was about half an hour when they emptied just before people started coming in and i went out to one of the auditoriums, so i m looking at an empty stadium, more or less, and i do my lines for the last time, just on my own, very quietly, and i d just finished, and from behind me, i hear the applause
her. and way better. without the man being the front man and go way better, sell more records, pack more auditoriums without ike. she proved women don t need a man to become the queen, whether you crown us or not. we re going to be the queen. in so many ways, tina turner was the ultimate. joe, it shows the impact she had. it s front page news on literally every paper we have. not just on the tabloids but above the fold in the wall street journal and on the times, as well. she had hits with ike turner. covered proud mary, a credence clearwater revival song. but private dancer, that s when she became this phenomenon, on a tour where she was selling out football stadiums around the world and had this renaissance and won a bunch of grammys for that, too. was in poor health and was living in switzerland in the