NEWS of the death of Adam Faith was especially poignant for me because I got to know him in the early 60s when he was a frequent visitor to Palma. He was at the height of his popsinging career in those days and his manager was a breezy brash and highly simpatica woman called Evie Taylor. Evie had a flat in Illetas and whenever she came out for a short stay she usually brought at least one of the several singers she represented. Apart from Adam there was Sandie Shaw and songwritermusicianarranger Tony Hatch and his singing wife and fellow songwriter, Jackie Trent. My first encounter with Adam was at a distance across a crowded patio, to be exact. It was the patio of the old Tirol biergarten in Calle Apuntadores, which was then run by Rudi, a rotund German who served the best potato salad on the island. I was then working as a freelance for London newspapers and one night was tipped off that Adam Faith was at the Tirol. What's more, he was with a pretty girl. In no time at all I was round at the Tirol which, this being summer, was packed tight. After a discreet search of the sea of faces from the sidelines, I saw Adam. And the girl he was with was extremely pretty. As always on these occasions, a picture is worth more than a thousand words but I didn't have a camera with me. But even if I had had one, I wouldn't have wanted to rush out and take a few shots, thus scaring Adam and sending him off to another venue. But luck was initially on my side that night. In those days there were photographers who spent the night going round bars, restaurants and outdoor cafés taking pictures of happy couples on holiday. That night one of these itinerant photographers was at Tirol and I approached him and pointed out the couple I was interested in. But I said he had to take a picture as nonchalantly as possible, because I didn't want Adam to suspect that this was a picture for the press. Well, the photographer certainly obeyed my instructions and seemed to take forever to wander round the tables before he was finally in front of Adam.
Adam Faith and Majorca
ANDREW VALENTE GETS AN EXCLUSIVE INSIGHT
12/03/2003 00:00
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