Davie Robb Talks About Stevie

[michelej1]

[I just am excerpting the Stevie parts from this long interview]

The Scotsman

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/footba...reer-1-3341404

Mar 15 2014 07:25:30 Saturday Interview : Davie Robb : Brush with Pele, Stevie Nicks and Oliva Netwon John

He doesn't have much need of a haircut now either and I almost don't recognise the rounder fellow, now 66, with the disposition of a jovial farmer, who leads me to his favourite coffee shop.Incredibly, Olivia Newton-John and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac both turn up in this story which features the unforgettable line "I'm Pele and this is David Robb" - but it begins near Dundee in Broughty Ferry.

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Years later when Robb worked in oil they ran into each other in Los Angeles. "Bizarrely, she was living next door to our company's lawyer. At first I don't think she recognised me. I told her I had happy memories of the first time we'd met."Then there was Stevie Nicks. "I knew who she was. Fleetwood Mac were performing in Philadelphia and we met them afterwards for drink and drugs. That's a joke - at least the team didn't touch the drugs. 'Where are you from?' she asked. 'Scotland,' I said. 'A little village outside London.' Neither of us wanted to to be at this party so we did a runner. We went to a nightclub and I remember she had no money with her. Then it was back to the hotel. Ach, everything was so free and easy ... "

For his best pal in America, Rodney Marsh, even the booze was free. "For mentioning his favourite vodka in public so many times he got sent 144 crates. He didn't know what to do with it so he filled his pool, his jacuzzi. I sat in the vodka jacuzzi." Robb, it should be emphasised, is still not boasting. I have to prise these details out of him. In the US that long hair earned him modelling gigs. Now he gets OAP discount on No 6 razorcuts - "You can hear the blade going right down to the wood!"Life is much quieter in Banchory where he lives with the youngest of his three sons following a messy end to his second marriage. But as an ex- footballer you'd continue to file him under "different" because of his work as a volunteer counsellor for people with addictions. "I started doing this after the death of my brother who drank heavily. And I stopped drinking myself when my wee laddie told me he didn't like the smell when he kissed me goodnight."Robb quit smoking for the same reason but the memory of his cup-winning goal still flickers. "It came off my shin! I felt a bit guilty because I got so much praise. But Bobby Clark told me I deserved it for playing for so long for Aberdeen and never getting any."And with that an old hero rejoins the city bustle for the 17.22 miles home, his big secret safely tucked away.