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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Tina Campbell

Sam Ryder: From Russian bunkers to Wembley — how graft, gratitude and good timing changed everything

When Sam Ryder was 13, he went to his first ever concert — a Sum 41 show at Wembley Arena. He left that night clutching his ticket stub and a dream.

“I’ve still got the ticket framed in my house,” he laughs while speaking to the Standard. “That was the night that changed my life. I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I can only hope there’ll be a kid sitting in that same seat at our show, leaving with the same feeling.”

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