Clarence was huge and hugely friendly as I got to know him over the next few years, backstage at many a club gig and concert, in the studio and running around the Jersey shore.
The Banda de Ipanema bloco attracts a huge and friendly gay crowd, while around the arches in Lapa there is a smaller, more bohemian scene.
I went to see Lionel Richie partly for comedy value, but I couldn't have been more moved by his reaction to us, the huge, happy, friendly Glastonbury crowd.
Plastic crates for light-shades, wall doodles, huge portions, friendly service (some of the staff are commune-dwellers), and plenty of flyers about local indie goings-on make this the perfect place for a counter-cultural veggie curry.
My allotment in Leeds is wonderful: a huge space, friendly people – and every Sunday, as our allotment association website says, there is tea, award-winning flapjack, and the opportunity "to get advice (wanted or unwanted)".
In recent years, it has evolved to cater to the emergence of huge family-friendly entertainment complexes, as opposed to the narrowly gambling-focused casinos that existed a decade ago.
"We should be making more of the fact we have BBC1, Radio 2, Radio 1; these are huge music-friendly vehicles and I'd love to find ways for these services to work together.
And Herman's Hermits – truly the most execrable cultural waste byproduct of the entire Invasion, who yet became huge family-friendly moptops in the USA – first played themselves in a Connie Francis MGM movie, then starred in Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, and every time it plays on TCM, I reach for my Ted Turner voodoo doll and pins.
He first reinvented Sin City in 1989 with the huge, family-friendly Mirage, and then again with the ultra-plush Bellagio in 1998.
