Cult music hero rockin' all over the world.A MUSICIAN who spent 30 years spectacularly failing to become a household name is launching a world tour by hiring an aircraft and packing it with 300 fans. John Otway John Otway, (born 2 October 1952, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England) is a self-confessed unsuccessful singer-songwriter, who built a large cult audience through unrelenting touring, a surreal sense of humour and a winning underdog personality. , who subtitled his autobiography Rock And Roll's Greatest Failure, will set off on his "Ot-Air" Airbus A340 to play some of the world's greatest venues. And the singer will start at perhaps the world's most famous - the Cavern in Liverpool before leaving John Lennon Noun 1. John Lennon - English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980) Lennon airport to fly to JFK on October 28. In another homage to the Beatles, he will also sail to Hamburg, where the Fab Four spent several months, before the tour starts in order to do some practice. His travelling audience will each pay pounds 4,000 - or pounds 7,000 in business class - to fly with him to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Tahiti, Sydney, Shanghai and Dubai. Otway has already filled nearly half the seats on the jet and is confident of a full flight. The fares paid by fans will also cover their hotels, escorted travel, gig tickets and a rock and roll party in Ning Bo, China, where Otway will be the first rock act to perform. It costs around pounds 1m to hire the plane which comes complete with a dedicated crew of "Ot-Air" stewardesses. He already has a strong cult following, having recorded a top 10 hit called Cor Baby That's Really Free in 1977. Tickets for the trip are being sold through the website www.johnotway.com. CAPTION(S): John Otway, whose world tour - aboard an A340 with hundreds of fans - begins at the Cavern in October |
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