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Definition:  A Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber starring MIKEY as Alex!
Frequently Used:  The three most used words in 1989.

Ball:

Definition:  The second of the two words Michael and Ball that always attract our attention  (Even when we're disappointed and it's a footballer or the milkman)
Frequently used:  This word is in regular use all over the world when used with the preceding Michael or Mikey and originates from 27th June 1962.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Definition: A musical starring Michael as Caracatus Potts
Frequrently used: The most said words of 2002

Donmar

Definition: Site of Mikey's new Alone Together show!!
Frequently used:  when referring to the video!!  And the place we all visited in September 2001!!

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

Definition:  Michael's masterpiece as Marius from Les Miserables (and I always love that story Michael tells of how he told Cameron Mackintosh and Trevor Nunn that he would not allow them to take it out of the show.  Too right Mikey you tell em!!! )
Frequently used: As the best song in Les Miserables since 1985

  Fans of Michael

Definition:  Fan Family who make up all our friends, and for the Fan I am proud to be.
Frequently used: As the name for each of us, Fan in the singular and Fans in the plural.  Mikey Fans appeared from the mid 1980's and grow by the day.

Giorgio

Definition:  Michael's character in Passion.
Frequently used:  Since 1996.  Origins of Plymouth and Queens Theatre, London

Hampton Court

Definition:  A London Palace with grounds fit for a Mikey Concert (and a great one at that )
Introduced into the Mikey vocabulary in Summer 1999!

It's Still You

Definition:  Mikey single and song from very first "Michael Ball" album, and video
Frequently used:  Since 1992, and with close relations to thoughts of 'boxer shorts' when used in the same thoughts as the video !!!!

  Joy To The World

Definition:  The Christmas concert Michael was the star of at The Royal Albert Hall in 1996.
Frequently used:  The word Joy as an adjective to describe how Michael makes us feel.  Traced back to the year 1962

  Kuala Lumpar (Malaysia)

Definition:  Where Michael did his Millennium night concert in 1999.

  Love Changes Everything

Definition:  Song from Aspects of Love which is not the same unless Mikey is singing it :-)
Frequently used:  Since first introduced in 1989 this has been present at most concerts!

  Michael

Definition:  This word is often the first one thought about in the morning and the last one at night and is used as a title, name, or term of endearment when shortened to Mikey to describe our favourite person.
Frequently used:  This word is in daily use, in a lot of cases hourly use, and in some cases when we have it bad, every minute!!

  Never Coming Back

Definition:  Never Coming Back the song that Michael wrote for This Time Its Personal, I think its one of the most fascinating songs the way it sounds like a train and it was really clever of Michael to do it. And it's special because Michael wrote it so it deserves a mention for the 'N's

Obsessive

Frequently used to describe fans of British singer, Michael Ball.
For example ... Obsessive Michael Ball fans log onto Ballpoint 16 times a day (each) to satisfy their Michael cravings.

  Passion

Definition:  "THE P WORD"  A Mikey Musical.  Dual usage as a good description for some other Mikey matters too like something Michael causes a lot of.
Frequently used: Origins date back to 1996

  Queen's Theatre

Definition:   Theatre in London's West End, home in 1996 to Passion !  Related to the P word and also the M word and the G word :-)
Frequently used:  When referring to the above words, this word came into the scene of Mikey in 1996.

Rugby
Definition:  The sport which Michael enjoys, and the 1999 world cup for which he sang at the opening ceremony.

  Sydney

Definition:   Aussie Country home to Michael's first ever concert on our side of the world.  Scene of much excitement at the Lyric Theatre, David Jones, and even among the Kangas while Mr Ball was in residence.

Michael became 'big down under' as he described it in March 2001, and Michael on the local TV, radio, posters in Darling Harbour culminating in the brilliant concert of March 10th was Sydney at its best

  Theatre

Definition: Theatre, the world of that brought Mikey to our US TV screens firstly as Marius, and then as part of Celebration, and then in his own PBS special, so much of which was based on his life beginning with the theatre.
Frequently used in conjunction with many of the other letters, and a word associated with Michael since he was a little boy and tells of how he loved theatre, and joined theatre groups, then theatre school, and then became the biggest UK theatre star himself.

Future prospects for this year would make it look likely we will hear the word theatre and Michael together quite a bit with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang coming from one of London's finest.

The T word also provides the places of many wonderful reviews of Michael's concerts.

Theatre and Michael, well they just go together!!!!!

Unsettled Scores

Definition:  The song Michael sings on the Whistle Down The Wind Collection, and one of the most beautiful of the lesser publicised songs!

This song appeared on the scene in 1998 and was a wonderful surprise!

Victoria Palace

Definition:  Victoria Palace Theatre, London where Michael sang for The Queen and Prince Phillip's Golden Wedding Anniversary.

This dates back  to 1st December 1997

Wales

Definition:  Wales has a special affection for Michael and we know because of his Welsh ancestry connections, Michael has a special love of Wales.

  X

Definition:  X is for the kiss we would all like to give Michael.  An X also denotes the single letter written by Michael after his signature, the famous 'x'.

Yogi and Yogipoint

Definition:  Michael's dog, Yogi ... We always think about Yogi and Y is for Yogi - I'm Beside You When I Think Of You from Lift The Wings that Michael sang for Yogi.

  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Definition:  Z is for ... the zzzz'zzzs !!!!!
Mr B once said one of his hobbies is sleeping!!!!
BUT ... drum roll!!!!!  (prefer a nice cheese sarnie meself but thats another matter  )

Now this is Mr B special ....

As famously said in an interview at a Royal Variety tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber  the place to be if you haven't heard of Mr ALW is "Planet Zork"    (suspected home of the visiting Aliens   )