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      At the end of my NY mini-break, I joined eighty thousand other people at a huge outdoor concert at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury that was being billed as the sound of California on the East Coast. At that time it was the biggest gig there had ever been in New York. Jesse Colin Young and the Beach Boys played first, then Joni Mitchell, and the headliners were Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

      CSNY played for a long time and each member also played a solo set. Neil Young began his by telling us that, at the end, he would reveal the fate of Evel Knievel. The legendary daredevil had proclaimed that he would leap that day across the Grand Canyon on his motorbike. Young played a magnificent set and at the end, as he ambled off, said, ‘It was a sham, it was a scam and he’s still alive.’ It was a fitting end to one of the best summers of my life.

      Yet all dreams have to come to an end and, back in Dublin, I came down to a earth with a bump. I graduated in 1975 with a BA but no honours, which was pretty much what my minimal work-rate had deserved, and decided that I would take a one-year Higher Diploma in teaching.