Meeting "Thunderbird 2" Pilot, Virgil Tracy

The night I met Virgil Tracy, pilot of Thunderbird 2!!! It was at The Barry Gray Tribute Concert at The Royal Festival Hall in November 2008. Barry Gray composed all the music for The Gerry Anderson TV shows. Shows including, Thunderbirds, Stingray, UFO, Space 1999, etc. Gerry and Sylvia Anderson both attended the concert. Sylvia provided the voice for Lady Penelope. Scott found time off from International Rescue operations to attend the concert also! The music was performed by The London Symphonia, the vocal group, Voces 8, and the show was presented by Brian Blessed.

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• Barry
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• Thunderbirds
• Virgil
• Tracy
• Supermarionation
• Gerry
• Anderson
• Thunderbird
• International
• Rescue
• Brian
• Blessed
• Fanderson

[quillerpen]

Thanks for this! I was lucky enough to meet Virgil and Glo that same evening, so it's nice to have a film to remind me.

PS you spelt Virgil's surname wrong - oops!

[modgeezer]

@quillerpen

Apologies! Name corrected! How the heck did I get that wrong?!!! Must've been all the excitement!!!

[ArccaToothus]

lucky Virgil's my favorite

[florianderl]

So jealous! I'd love to have met him too! He's my favourite!

Glad he's still in good condition after all these years :)

[youandyamum]

the years have been kind to Virgil..

[LittleAngel1977]

So cool, I'd love to have seen it. Virgil was my favourite too. Was it the original puppet or the one from the second series? I can't tell.

[darliegoddess]

So cool !

[marceloribeirobarros]

AMAZING !!!!

[marceloribeirobarros]

AMAZING !

[Klurty34]

That's Glo thourogood