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I was once in line to check into the campus hotel at the University of Massachusetts (c. 1978) and I was in line behind an older, shorter man, built like a fire-hydrant and wearing a black overcoat and black fedora. He didn't exactly fit in on the college campus. So he registered and then walked over to pick up his suitcase and a guitar case. (Actually, the guy looked like a gangster from 1929.) When I walked up to the desk to register I asked the young lady who that last guy was. She said she didn't know and flipped the book around so I could read the name. It was Julian Bream, who was probably the heir to Segovia's title as world's greatest classical guitarist. My lone "brush with greatness", LOL!