George Lloyd
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George Lloyd

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Telling this story of my life has brought back memories good and bad, I will be sharing with you all my faults and failures along the way. There are many positive stories to tell you however I have been brutally honest about at times my questionable behavior. With reference to dance, and also personal dramas outside of the Ballroom. My life on and off the dance floor, buckle up for a bumpy ride as the story unfolds. Foreword by LEN GOODMAN I owe so much to George Lloyd, much more than you would imagine, but more about that later; Saturday’s, have always played a big part in my life. On a Saturday night back in 2004, Strictly Come Dancing began. Who would have thought it would become such a massive hit throughout the world, and I would become “Head Judge”, I still pinch myself now after all these years. One of my earliest memories is, Saturday morning pictures paying my sixpence and being one of the first ones in, so I could sit in the front row. As a child, Saturday night was “fish and chip” night. Going with my dad to the local chippy and rushing back in case they got cold. As a teenager, going to the Embassy Ballroom in Welling, Kent on a Saturday night and jiving the night away, well to 9 O’clock as I had to be home by 9.30pm, was the highlight of the week. Now back to how George Lloyd changed my life – in 1978 Saturday Night Fever was the big film of the year and I went to see it and thought the music and the dancing was just fantastic. I thought maybe I should teach all the dances from the film at my studio in Kent, and so I went to learn the moves from George at the Sydney Francis Studio in Hendon, North London. I knew George from meeting him for many years at judging events and before that at Phyllis Haylor Dance School in Hammersmith, London where, like George, I trained for my ballroom teaching theory. I followed George’s instructions to the letter, even down to the advert “Seen the film, heard the music, now learn the dances”. Thanks to George, my dance studio was packed out. From one planned class a week, we ended up teaching Saturday Night Fever, five nights a week! The dance classes went on long after the film had finished. In fact, we still teach Disco but its now called “Freestyle” to this day. Without knowing and visiting George I may not have become the teacher I was and then may not have had the opportunity of Strictly Come Dancing and all the other great opportunities that the programme has brought me since being involved as head judge. I’m truly blessed. I lost touch with George and Alyson once they moved to Holland but what a joy this book had been to read, as its taken me back to a life full of ups and downs, just like all of us. George Lloyd has been and still is, one of my dancing heroes. I owe a lot to George Lloyd and hopefully this book will give you an in sight into his wonderful and colourful life. LEN GOODMAN
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