Sunday, 27 September 2009

Ex-student

Nice to see an ex-pupil of mine making some money....

From Wikipedia...

Dallaglio was born in Shepherd's Bush, London. He was educated at King's House School in Richmond and at Ampleforth College, one of the leading Catholic boarding schools in England, where he was affectionately known as "Del Boy", (though he actually attained his A-levels at The Oxford School of Learning), and at Kingston University.

In 1985, as a 13-year-old chorister in the King's House School choir, Dallaglio and 20 other choristers sang backing vocals on the song "We Don't Need Another Hero" by Tina Turner. This only became known in 2005, when the Musicians' Union, having realised that the choristers had not been paid royalties on the record, attempted to track them down. As part of the same choir, Dallaglio sang at the wedding of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber [2].

Because Dallaglio's father, Vincenzo, is Italian, and his mother, Eileen, was half Irish, [3], he was eligible to play for both Italy and Ireland, as well as England, and in the early 1990s he turned down an invitation to play for Ireland. [4]

His sister Francesca, a 19-year-old student ballerina, died in the Marchioness disaster in 1989.

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