The Osmonds 50th Anniversary Tour and they get to meet me!!
The Osmonds, all of them, arrive in the UK next week to start their sell out 50th Anniversary Tour and my darling fiancee bought me the most wonderful Christmas present, one of the VIP packages to the Cardiff Tour Date on Wednesday 28th May - which includes among other things, access to the Sound Check, Question & Answer session and Meet and Greet.. so The Osmonds finally get to meet me, sure hope they are as excited about that as I am!! LOL
Actually as you can see below I have been very lucky in recent years to fulfill my teenage dream of one day meeting Donny - yep I am one of his “Puppy Lovers” as he affectionately calls us and that means, if it’s not obvious, any fan of his from the 70’s - I saw The Osmonds twice in concert back in those teeney bopper days but was never lucky enough to meet any of them, let alone Donny (who of course, like a gazzillion other girls, I was going to marry but you know what, he never asked me, what was that all about LOL).
I first met Donny in 2004 and chose to subject the poor guy to my “statue” impression, yep, couldn’t move or talk, could barely breath! since then I have met him lots of other times and now I can actually form sentences when around him, really!
I have now found though that as you get to know Donny for the lovely down to earth bloke he is, you stop putting him up on that pedestal and you can start being human again when your around him.
Now for the rest of the family, I have been up close to Jay and Jimmy but not to chat to. Merrill, now with our dear ‘Bear’ a few years ago, I decided that as I was not allowed to go hanging around airports, hotels and stage doors in the 70’s by my parents (I was so held back, no fair) anywho, that now as an adult, I needed to experience what that was like and headed on over to Heathrow on one of Merrill’s trips here and got some lovely pictures, a chat and a “walk with me” arm over my shoulder kind of hug.
So that leaves Wayne, Alan and Marie.
Marie, have not seen her since the 70’s - loved her on “Dancing with the Stars” recently as I love to dance as well, so I cannot wait to meet her (and she is just 4 months older than me).
Wayne is such a joker so I understand and an absolute sweetheart, cant wait to meet him.
And Alan again, never met him, so want to.
I was lucky enough to go to The Osmonds concert and Londons Hammersmith Apollo in March of 2006 (line up was Jay, Merrill, Wayne and Jimmy) and we were told that if Alan was well enough, he may put in a guest appearance (Alan suffers with MS and has not been able to perform with his brothers for some time). Well he did, I had a front row seat - not that you use your seat at an Osmond Concert - and when he walked onto the stage to the resounding chorus of the entire venue shouting “We Want the Osmonds” and then you stamp with your feet and repeat, over and over, well his face was an absolute picture. I think the idea was that Jimmy would introduce him and then - allow a bit of applause then got on with one or two songs if Alan could cope - now remember Alan had not performed for years and the last time he would have seen a reaction like he got was back in the 70’s.
Well they did not get to do that, we fans had other ideas and everyone there seemed to know that WE were going to treat Alan to reliving a memory and the stomping and chanting went on for at least five minutes - yep, the Apollo full of 40 somethings women and you were transformed back to the 70’s.
Alan just stood there and took it all in and you saw the tears roll down his cheeks, I have chills now just thinking about it, I am so very proud to have been a part of that moment, of giving Alan that memory back and I so want to tell him as well and give him a hug, hopefully I will now get to do it.
The picture below is one from that concert in 2006 and we got more than one song with Alan. That concert was not like a concert, it was like some huge family reunion.. so now with all of them, together for this 50th Anniversary Tour I simply cannot imagine what the atmosphere is going to be like.
The picture shows from left to right, Jay, Alan, Merrill and just a little bit of Wayne.
And this picture shows that an Osmond concert is the same as it was in the 70’s, just look at all those adoring hands all wanting to touch an Osmond, this is Jay running along the front of the stage and grabbing as many as he can, yep I got a quick hand hold. I don’t know who enjoyed that concert more, us or The Osmonds LOL
Now as this blog has got very long, I had better get to my other point of it.
I have decided that I will be blogging about the whole experience of the 28th May, with photos and so if that would interest you, then please do register (top left under my photo) to receive blog updates via newsletter - then you won’t miss anything and for those of you who do, IF I manage to take any good photos then I will select a few to send to you. You don’t need to accept the current free download gift that goes with subscription to “Sue’s Digest” but what you will need to do is, go to my contact page, either before or after subscribing, and send me a quick email with OSMOND in the subject, then I can put you in a separate list from my other subscribers and make sure you get a photo.
Now lastly, I would love to know what any of you would want to “Ask an Osmond” at a question and answer session, so please do leave me a comment and tell me what you would ask.. and perhaps let me know via comments if you would like me to blog and show some other photos from all the recent Donny tours I have been on?
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