And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.
I had a gig in Sweden. There were thousands of people there, and when I launched into 'I'm Yours,' they were all singing along. It was as if I was singing the Swedish national anthem. I was stunned.
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.
I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.
When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything; people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.
I've been touring now since about '68.
Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.
Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.