I’m sure there can’t be many out there who aren’t aware of the huge success of the TV show The Sopranos. Launching in early 1999 it became an immediate success, telling the story of the head of a Mafia family, Tony Soprano, and his family and associates. Unlike previous Mob shows and films, it focused on Tony as a human being, trying to hold his natural family life together along with handling the more criminal-oriented associates that were his other ‘family’, the Jersey Crew.
Widely acclaimed as one of the greatest TV shows of all times, and gaining many awards to back this claim up, it attracted Scottish Scooterboy Billy McKechnie who, it’s fair to say, became a huge fan of the show. His love of the show extended to a holiday in the US where he visited the New Jersey area of New York and toured the locations that the programme regularly featured, even going as far as to sit in the chair that the head of the family made
