Marlborough teen's dream comes true (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Marlborough teen's dream comes true

2:27pm Thursday 7th April 2011 in News By Nigel Kerton

A dream come true, is how Marlborough teenager Robert Dobie described being taken backstage to see McFly before their performance at the NEC in Birmingham.

He met his favourite band with his mother Michelle and a group of friends.

Robert, 16, of Rabley Wood View was a guest of the band after meeting them when they visited Marlborough’s Sound Knowledge music to promote new releases.

Theformer St John’s School student Robert told them how he had nearly died when he contracted food poisoning after eating a burger at a market in Swindon in December 2009.

He developed complications and was transferred from Great Western Hospital to Bristol Children’s Hospital where he suffered a stroke and on Christmas Day his parents, Michelle and Bob, were warned he could die. His parents played his favourite albums, including McFly, as he lay in hospital.

When the band heard his story they invited him to take along some friends to their concert last Wednesday.

Robert said: “I would just like to say thank you to everyone involved in this and I can never thank them enough.

“The concert and meeting the band before it started has been out of this world.

“The McFly members are particularly close to me as mum and dad and the nurses played their CDs to me whileI was in a coma at the Bristol hospital and I still believe to this day this helped to bring me round.”

Robert said when they were invited back-stage “the boys shook my hand and asked ‘How are you Rob?’ like we are all best mates.”