Wednesday, 22 September 2010

What is the Vatican City categorised as?

This was posed to me at the R&R the other day.
We knew it was some sort of stand alone country, and figured that it couldn't be a principality, since it didn't have a prince....but what is it?
Let's check it ahhht!...

The official name is 'Stato della Città del Vaticano' which translates to 'State of the City of the Vatican'. It is a landlocked sovereign state city within Rome, Italy. The Pope is the head of state; the Sovereign of the Vatican.

What ever happened to Pete Willis of Def Leppard?

Michael posed this to me at the Cave last night.
Let's check it ahht!...

According to Wikipedia, Pete Willis was dismissed from Def Leppard in 1983 during the recording of Pyromania and replaced by Phil Collen.
Subsequently, Pete Willis went on to feature in Gogmagog - with former and future members of Iron Maiden - and Roadhouse.
In 2003 he reunited for a show with his school band Atomic mass.
Since 2003 he has not been involved in the music business and has been running a property management company in Sheffield.