Sad but with my lovely blond son for company, I got an unexpected boost. On a snowy Christmas Eve [in 1975], two men delivered an enormous thing wrapped in brown paper from a lorry. We ripped the paper off to find a fully stacked jukebox filled with all George’s favourite records. A note said, Every home should have one. Happy Christmas, love George and Olivia.
That Christmas, Carey and I danced away. He could only just reach the buttons. He could punch 123, which was “Money” by Pink Floyd, but his favourite was “Bohemian Rhapsody.” He adored that song.
- Eric Idle, Chapter 10: “The Divorce Fairy”, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography