 PETE NOONE here. Perhaps you know me better as Herman of the magic Hermits! In fact nearly everybody calls me Herman now - even me Mum! I think The Hermits are in fact the only people left that ever call me by my own name. Me Mum says she calls me Herman because she's now so used to seeing my picture with the name Herman underneath that that's what she thinks of me as! Oh well, I don't care what they call me. Although, some nasty folk in this country have been calling me some rude things, and saying I'm finished and all that. Well, considering our last record, which we call "Muscular Boy", but is actually called "Must To Avoid", got well into the top twenty over here, I don't think I'm quite finished. Do you? I'll admit that we are much bigger in the States than we are in Britain. But I would really like to get another No. 1 hit record here, just to prove all the knockers wrong! I bought a big car last time I was in the States. I had to wait a couple of months for it to be shipped over here, and would you believe it, I only had it a couple of weeks, and the big end or something broke off! I was a bit upset at that, I can tell you. Pity, it was such a beautiful big white monster of a car. But it's not much good to you if things are going to go wrong. So I'm sticking to my blue Jaguar. British is best! I'll never forget that it was in this very magazine, "Mirabelle", that I got my first-ever write-up. That was about a year and a half ago. Have I changed much since then? I'll say I have! Well, for a start, I've travelled much more than most kids of my age (18). I've seen a lot of the world, and I've met hundreds of different people, some nice, some not so nice. But most of them very helpful to me. Which is great, 'cos I've not half learned a lot in the last eighteen months. I take a great interest in the welfare of the Hermits, and I devote a lot of time to Mum and all the family. We now live in Liverpool, where I bought a smashing house. |