My wife is a Robbie Williams fan, she has seen him many times in many places as well as Take That.
She got the chance to see him when he was at Knebworth and then she bought the documentary and I watched it with her (perhaps more than once).
This is the one in which Williams flew over the crowd in a helicopter on his way to the stage, the crowd was that big - 125,000 people for three nights in a row. It never got as good as Knebworth again for him, he did the Take That reunion stuff but it never got like Knebworth.
This Summer Ed Sheeran will do Wembley for three nights in a row - it might never get as big for him again.
We all have our own 'Knebworth Moments' happening all the time but none of us really realise it. The problem for most of us is that we don't realise we have reached our zenith until we are way past the other side. A couple of years ago I had a week where I did The Outlaw Half Triathlon, qualified for GB age group with a great performance and then did the 24 hour bike ride from Manchester to London. It's never been like that since.
Professionally I was asked to speak at The British Dental Conference last year to somewhere around 1,000 people and recently the British Dental Students Association to about 600 people. They are probably the two biggest lectures I will ever do and I am unlikely to be invited back. For that reason I need to cultivate a sense of appreciation of these things as they come up because all too often they seem to just be another busy event in a busy life. The ability to appreciate things on a day-to-day basis means that whenever the 'Knebworth Moments' or other brilliant moments come along, you can get the best out of them, the best memories and the best appreciation of how lucky we actually are.
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