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Eileen Wright - Biography
Eileen was one of `the Flushing girls` along with Jill Carpenter and Penny Eathorne. The three of them would take the boat to Falmouth across Falmouth Bay from their homes in Flushing to dance away the night at the Princess Pavilion. It was a six mile journey by road, but that way they couldn`t look up to the stars and dream. They were the archetypal British groupies, giggly and excitably shy, with starry, romantic notions of the boys from out of town, bearing not even remotely carnal undertones.During their ten month romance, Eileen scribbled Roger`s name on her school books and relished seeing him, but she still held an affection for a boy she had been seing before Roger, Chris Libby, who lived in Flushing. The long journey to Truro to see Roger was also becoming tiresome. If she caught the bus it means a four-mile walk at the end through unlit rural lanes. On one occasion an older man made unwelcome advances to her on the bus and it left her distraught. Unexpectedly, Chris Libby contacted her and said he wanted to return some books; she mistankely saw his attempt by him to resume the relationship. At Christmas 1965 she finished with Roger. "He was very upset," she said. "My mum said he cried, but I don`t know about that. He used to phone me at my friend`s house." Either way, they both spend Christmas without a partner.Eileen, now working as a nurse for the Blood Transfussion Service, was one of the many acquaintances of Roger Taylor to pack into his Truro show in 1994. Throughout the concert her friends were forever digging her in the ribs and trying to persuade her that the lyrics were about the heartbreak of losing his first love, his Flushing Girl. Eileen still has a sentimental attachment to Roger. "I didn`t like it when he wore his sunglasses on stage," she complains. "He looks much better with them off. It was his eyes that I remember him for."Source: "Queen: The Early Years", by Mark Hodkinson.
