Page Updated 28/02/2008	Bonnie’s Laurie Allen Tribute
This photo of Laurie was taken at The Brunswick Nursing Home, I had only spoken to Laurie a couple of times- however, when he found out my Mother was at the nursing home, he offered to come and sing for the residents. He stayed for three hours, despite not being well himself on that day, and gave the residents at the Nursing home a wonderful afternoon. He also gave me a day that I will always remember with my dear Mum. My mother passed away not long after that day, I thought at the time what a great thing for Laurie to do. As I got to know him better though, I found out it was just the typical Laurie, it was at that point definitely the biggest highlight of my life. It was just after my mother passed away that Laurie rang me, just out of the blue, I used to say to friends that he was heaven sent, by taking me into his Laurieland he got me through a most difficult period of my life, two little orphans caring for each other, a dream come true for me and I still say …heaven sent, well maybe a few of my rallies all got together up there and said “lets put that girl out of her misery” hmmmm I can remember on this day all the funny things that happened like a little frail lady looked up at Laurie with out stretched arms, he looked at me and said “what doe she want”? I asked her what she wanted and she whispered she wanted to go to the toilet, I turned to Laurie and said she wants to go to the toilet, the look on Laurie’s face was priceless.		Laurie and Waza the apprentice at the Pascoe Vale RSL. Laurie would do a regular gig at the Pascoe Vale RSL..
The start of the band LBW at the opening of the new housing estate Heritage Springs in Pakenham April 2002...An example of the Laurie Allen humour, after this day of entertainment outside at the local rotunda, with no rest rooms around, a ladies room was in much demand on the drive home, a Dandenong pokies place was the first place we came across. As desperate as I was, I was nevertheless still horrified to see Laurie jump out of the car and start acting like a traffic cop with his hand up in a stop motion in the middle of the footpath yelling "Lady in a hurry, toilet run" I can't actually remember seeing any faces in the group of people all standing there under his orders but he did clear a direct passage for me!...the Laurie humour was irreverent but amazing.			The last concert at Moorabbin Townhall in June 2002, yes they were as good as they were in the 60’s, Laurie passed away about a week and a half after giving his all for one last great show…Thanks to Greg Lynch After their lifting of the roof performance I had a small table set up in the foyer with the Turning Point cd for sale, I was bombarded, all I could see was money being thrown at me from all directions, not even knowing where it was coming from, thanks to the nice Dr Wolfe man who came to my rescue, it was so good to see the long queue of people waiting to get their cd’s signed, it must have been like the good old days to Laurie, this was such a great finale for him, he was so happy that night.
My First Photo Shoot This was a good gig for me, stuck out in a garage/studio with three handsome fellas, what more could a girl ask for, well I think the other 2 were there, the photos say so. Five rolls of film on that day, a great day. I was still in the …I can’t believe this is happening ..mode at this point, was one great afternoon, always lots of laughs with Laurie, always.