News: FREDDIE MCGREGOR - Not without honour

Few artistes can make a one-hour wait worthwhile, but after our marathon endurance (not his fault as it turned out) Freddie McGregor emerges as the kind of artiste that one could willingly allocate half the day to - and one who is equally willing to share from his insights, experiences, joys and rants amassed over the course of more than four decades as a performing and recording artiste.

McGregor, who has been a touring musician since 1975, says he enjoys the haul of touring even more now than then, and adds that he favours the immediacy of standing and delivering before an audience to the relative perfectionism of the studio. "When you are on stage everything is 'here and now' you don't get an opportunity to leave it and come back when you feel more in the mood."

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