"I had just finished training as an Army musician and been posted to my first band. When I'm nervous I lose my appetite, so I hadn't eaten much before my first engagement, which involved standing on a parade square for about an hour and a half. Needless to say, I blacked out and one of the other musicians saw me swaying and caught me and my saxophone before I fell. It took three men to carry me off the square, and the first person I saw when I came around was the musician who caught me. We've been together 10 years now and married for eight!"
