It takes years to build trust and only seconds to destroy it. When they do and you react contrary to your personal brand, your actions re-establish your brand. When it comes to your customers’ needs and your promises kept, how far are you willing to go to make sure you’ve lived up to your personal brand? You better know that right now because…things happen. He asked his EMT to set his leg and they helped him get back onstage to finish the show. He recently broke his leg falling off the stage during a show in Sweden. Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters has just that kind of devotion to his fans. It takes a special kind of commitment and dedication to continue entertaining a crowd of thousands on a freshly-broken leg. If you were faced with a situation beyond your control that affected not one but many other people (such as customers), how would they react? What would your customers think and say about you? Would your personal brand stand the test? Personal branding is the work you do to insure that when things happen beyond your control, your primary message of value stays intact. We get up everyday and expect smooth sailing but the truth is, most days, things happen. She might not have known the actual name of Cat People (Putting Out Fire), but Sabrina was clearly a burgeoning super-fan.Things happen. Me and my friend talk about you all the time. My most favourite song is Putting out the Fire with gasoline. I would love it if you sent me a picture of you to me. The letter reads: "Dear David Bowie, I love you very much. It appears to have impressed one 13-year-old fan named Sabrina, according to a post that surfaced on Pinterest. He performed at The Scope, a venue in Norfolk, Virginia, delivering a career-spanning show that included the likes of Heroes, Life On Mars and Fame.
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Leafing through my American College Dictionary and came upon a phrase, to wit: 'de Mortis nil nisi bosom.' Which translates: 'Of the dead say nothing but good.' I thought you might be interested in knowing that Ancient Romans appreciate good music."ĭavid Bowie was enjoying a purple patch commercially in 1983, having released Let's Dance, co-produced by Chic musician Nile Rodgers, which spawned the eponymous hit single and the similarly successful China Girl and Modern Love. The Grateful Dead's stand-out fan mail is collected in the 2011 book Dead Letters: The Very Best Grateful Dead Fan Mail, which includes a lovely note dated March 1981, adorned with an illustration of a skeleton. People continue to write us about births and deaths in their families, and we're starting to hear about Dead Head grandchildren." Even though it's gotten so much bigger, for the most part it still feels like a community. I thought then, 'Well, that's the end of that job.' Little did I know I'd still be at it more than 25 years later. In the band's heyday, fan-band correspondence was overseen by Eileen Law, affectionately known as the Queen Mother of all Dead Heads, as she explained in a 1984 interview with fanzine Golden Road: "In 1972, we got the first mail-out to about 350 people. Thus they launched a fan mail-out and christened their fans the Dead Heads. If you're a Beatles fan, it seems all you need is love - and a bit of patience.Ĭalifornian rock band the Grateful Dead recognised, early on, the power of the relationship between band and fan. Weirdly, this instance of decade-spanning fandom mirrors an episode of The Simpsons in which Marge receives a reply to fan mail she sent to Ringo Star 30 years previously. Great to hear you found each other after all these years. It finally got through, better late than never. His lovely, late reply: "Hi Linda and Barbara, thanks very much for your lovely note. Local historian David McDermott happens upon the tape, takes it on to The One Show, reunites the pair of fans, and even ensures that their recording finds its way to the ears of Paul McCartney. But we can always live in hope, can’t we?" They stick the tape to a wall at Finsbury Park Astoria, where the band are next due to perform.įast-forward 50 years and the tape has somehow made its way to a flea market in Great Yarmouth. The pair make an audio recording that includes the words: "The dream is just to come round the back and see you, but I don’t suppose that will ever happen.
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It's December 1963 and music fans Barbara Bezant and Lyn Phillips are in the full throes of Beatlemania, having seen The Beatles perform at the Lewisham Odeon.