Trip down Memory Lane
Almost Abbey Road Re-Visited ! was studying to be an actor , rescued me . I was able to return home and attend a local school .”
You see , young Nicholas had other ideas for a career . And is it any wonder ? While his father was a proper Brit , whose only brush with show business was singing in a church choir , his mother , Jessie , was not born into proper British society . She was a real live Scottish gypsy ! Fantasy and adventure coursed through her veins , as did performing . As a young woman , Jessie was in demand for her emotional readings of the great Scottish poet Robert Burns , considered to be the father of the Romantic movement that swept the world towards the end of the 18th century . Nick not only inherited her fondness for all things magical , but her commanding way with words .
“ I ’ m not sure whose side my passion for comedy came from ,” he jokingly admits . “ But I have always loved to make people laugh . And while no one in my family had any interest in performing ‘ magic tricks ,’ nor was I ever given a magic kit as a kid , my destiny always seemed headed in that direction .” Nick was eleven years old when he first saw a magician on television , the legendary David Nixon . “ I remember it so clearly . He performed a card-in-cigarette routine . I was mesmerized and from that moment on , I was determined to learn magic .”
He began searching out other magicians and quickly