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George Dourado at 88 . Complete with flying fingers.

At 92, George has dementia, probably from a fall a couple of years ago, and seems unable to play anymore. He's been a pianist from when he was six (his first public performance), and it feels very strange to write that my Dad was rather than is a piano player. It's such a defining part of him. This was him at 88, playing in a club in north London, with his singer, Alfie. Give it thirty seconds or so and his fingers take off and do impossible things. His biggest fan, his wife Patsy, is who he was really playing this for, as she'd asked for it especially. I suspect that's why and how he came up with such a dazzling rendition of it. She helped him tap into his best. That's what love does to us, doesn't it. What's that thing Jack Nicholson says in As Good as It Gets? when Helen Hunt asks him to say something to her that shows he loves her? 'You make me want to be a better man.' I suspect, as good as Dad was as a pianist, that his wife Patsy made him want to be even better and he really performed at his best when he was playing for her. She brought him out. Anyway, just wanted to make sure this recording is out there somewhere, still floating around, now that he can't play like this again. Thank goodness for recording and You Tube.