Radio Australia Today Editorial

Vale Christie Allen

14 August 2008

It was 1980.

A spunky girl appeared on our televisions here in Australia and sang a pretty pop song called He’s My Number One. It did very well in the charts, probably not so much for the song, but for the spunky girl.

As Christie Allen did her little dance thing, she had teenage boys all over the country wishing they were her number one, me being one of them.

The last 28 years have gone by so fast. As the rest of us got older, Christie married, retired to the Australian country to go into what she hoped would be domestic bliss. Unfortunately she was soon diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a disease she fought for years.

Then we got the news this morning that Christie has succombed to the illness.

She will undoubtedly be remembered as wonderful wife and mother, but for the rest of us, Christie Allen was part of our young lives, a moment of joy that is now part of us all.

Christy Allen’s death leaves a little hole in our lives. We’ll miss you Christy, your leggings, your fabulous hair and your exhuberance.

– Phil