Richard Branson

Richard Branson

I remember well the year of his birth

the Eagle comic, three penny worth.

Dan Dare believable, things achievable

Digby, lazy, sleepy, debatable.

Freebooter a Grand national win,

me, no money on him.

From the crypt of a church business began

Student, making Branson a popular man.

Student magazine advertising pop records

brought him great financial rewards.

Seventy one his first record sale

His Oxford St. shop the public would hail.

Virgin Records launched in seventy two

for twenty years it expanded and grew.

Eventually sold to EMI

this sale made him cry.

Planes and trains more success

seemingly never under stress.

A few islands, isolated, wild

not to bad for a dyslexic child.

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