“No eating, no drinking, no smoking, no toking”

He was a California hippie named Ivan Dryer and this is how he introduced the show. He invented laser light shows and the big one was Laserium at the Planeterium. It was a sensation – multi-coloured laser beams moving to music played through the most powerful sound system most people had ever heard and this track worked brilliantly. Just close your eyes and imagine those lasers. On a Saturday night, the queues outside were almost as long as they had been earlier for Madame Tussauds next door. A laser show, a bag of chips from the Sea Shell on Lisson Grove and back home up the Edgware Road in a red Cortina. I mean, come on – that was a hot date.