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Music My castaway this week is Lord David Cobbled.

He was just 32 when he took over the ancestral pile, Nebworth House, and from that moment on, he dedicated himself to keeping it in the family.

He succeeded in turning a crumbling corner of the establishment, famous for its high Victorian architecture, into one of the best rock concert venues in the world.

Over the past 40 years, everyone from Led Zeppelin to Paul

McCartney to Oasis, have played there. In the early years, it was all a bit slapdash. His wife,

Chrissy, used to round up any stray fans in her old Renault to get them to the gig on time. These

days, the benefits are clear and practical. When Robbie Williams performed three sell-out nights,

it paid for the estate's new sewage pipes and repairs to the deer fence.

The other benefit, of course, is having a front-row seat

to some of the most celebrated performances in rock history.

We are very lucky.

The whole period that our generation lived through, he says,

was very creative and entertaining and very positive.

It was a fun time. A lot of good things happened, as well as some difficulties.

So Lord Cobled, let's go back then to one of the earliest concerts at Nebworth and maybe some of the difficulties.

It was 1976,

the Rolling Stones were due to play and you also, I understand,

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