Reddet av prinsessen (Überschrift im OCR abgeschnitten)

Preview with a telephone interview (“vel hjemme i England”) ahead of Leven's appearance closing the 2005 Working Class Hero festival in Drammen on Sunday, 1 May – according to the paper his first concert there in two years. Andreassen introduces Leven as the former frontman of Doll by Doll, whose voice Q had counted among the greatest British voices; the solo albums since 1994 are first-rate without having made him widely known. Åge Aleksandersen is named as a prominent fan.

Leven says (self-report) that he has just come back from Beirut, where he recorded new songs with Lebanese and Greek musicians – it still sounds like a Western Jackie Leven record, but it is the most exciting thing he has done. He does not measure success in sales: he knows many successful musicians, but none of them gets to travel to Tromsø. At length he repeats the Diana anecdote: after the attack (in the paper “1982”, “mugged and stabbed”) he worked for years with addicts and met Princess Diana in the course of it; her “Why don't you sing something” was perhaps the most important moment of his life, and he did not dare to sing again for over ten years.

On the festival's name, Leven says he is himself a “working class man”; in England a festival would not call itself that, because under Tony Blair people want to forget their industrial roots. Andreassen closes by noting that Leven's concerts are never boring – he has seen “quite a few”.