Once paid £27 to Customs on gold watch brought back from U.S.A.
    Has a dog called Frimp.
    Goes round junk shops looking for Inkspots and George Formby discs.
    Brings in supplies of hamburgers at disc sessions.

    Has powder blue 3.8 Jag.
    During making of "No Place Like Space," he and Hermits lived in Beverly Hills mansion with 23 bedrooms.
    Is a dead shot with a peashooter.
    While on holiday in California, bought white suit to show off his suntan.

    Speaks fluent German.
    Before he left for one U.S.A. trip, his mum - Mrs. Joan Noone - ironed 37 shirts for him.
    Once wanted to be a doctor - then a priest.

    Herman's a sucker for fruit machines and he really enjoys all sorts of gambling. I remember one time in a cafe in Urmston, Herman fed a quid's worth of sixpences into a fruit machine one after the other.