Meeting Beach Boys n Wynton Marsalis In Singapore: Cindy Lai

YouTube video below with Eric Clapton

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This article has never been posted but written on May 4th, 2014.

Visits by the group and trumpeter could have happened in the 80s as no dates were mentioned in the articles.

I hope you read the previous post where I introduced my former neighbour, entrepreneur, fashion designer and health guru Cindy Lai, who took us back to London's Carnaby Street in the 70s and re-introduced us to Gilbert O'Sullivan's Clair, one of my favourite pieces.

When I asked her to be a regular guest blogger busy Cindy cheerfully agreed and promised to walk her memory trail with us whenever she's free.  Here are the latest, where she met up with a famous 60s boy band and a renowned trumpeteer...

                    The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations: You Tube Video by Larry Jonik.

Hi Andy,

When the Beach Boys came to town, my classmates and I somehow got the news and went to visit at The Goodwood Hotel where they were staying. (It was so long ago, I stand corrected about the venue). 

We caught them at the pool. As fans and crazy young teenagers, we got close for autographs. Guess what, I pulled his hair (the tall blonde) & stuck it to my autograph album. For years after, it was my show and tell piece of memorabilia.  

Here's a picture, I remember he was the tall blonde, the one on the extreme right with the guitar.  That autograph book long vanished, have no idea where it went. I don't even remember which year. The scenarios remained in my mind, that's all. 
 
Perhaps another meet up that doesn't need evidence would be better. This takes me to another event.  Just sharing here. I went to Wynton Marsalis' concert at The Westin. I had planned precisely to get his autograph no matter what. I was thrilled when I succeeded. He wrote my name with best wishes and signature. 

Later I went to the wash room, left it on the back shelf of the toilet and walked out. When I realised, I rushed back for it after like fifteen minutes; it was gone. This one was a huge shame indeed.

Cheers,
Cindy. 

Images: Google.

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in 1961 in California by Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine. Since then, the band has undergone many variations in composition, being represented by fill-ins onstage as often as not.

Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, music educator and Artistic Director of Jazz @ Lincoln Center in New York City, United States.  He has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences and has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and one jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton 

with Corinne Corinna: 

YouTube Video from: EClapton Addict

Cindy Lai wrote the above article. She had gone 

to London to be trained as a fashion designer 

and had a boutique in Singapore.