Ian
We go back a long way. We first went to Germany for the Gold Star Award competition in 1986 but it was when you started to direct our many TV Specials that our friendship blossomed.
I can remember the night in The Point when we recorded our Christmas show, not long before curtain up the stage lift stopped working and couldn’t be fixed. While everyone was flapping you just smiled and said at least the stage is up. How right you were. The show went on and who missed the lift! We were blessed to get to do so many shows for PBS TV in America and wherever it was recorded your flight was always booked and you were ever ready to go. We always knew that if we gave you the show you would give us back a brilliantly edited tv special.
You were a master at you craft.
I think the fact that you were a musician you knew how to get the best out of all of us. Thanks Ian for all the great work but most of all for your support and friendship. You were one of the few who believed in me from the beginning. I was looking for a photo of us together but I can’t find one. There must be one somewhere. We surely didn’t travel all those miles together and escape the paparazzi 😄
Hope these few lines take you back in you memory to the great times we had through the years. Hope to meet you sometime.
I titled this
A COOL HEAD
Because like the night in the point you were always COOL and as they say in the business you were definitely A Head
- Daniel O Donnell