User:Joe Vitale 5

Biography
To whomever it may concern, I'm Joseph Charles "Joe" Vitale, born on June 27, 1979 in the great city of Youngstown, Ohio in the United States, I grew up there until I was around 19, before moving to the not-so-great Wichita, Kansas for a part-time job with my father, Vannozzo Vitale (what a name!), and in late 2009 I went on a short trip to Stockport, Cheshire, England, with a former friend of mine (who doesn't want to be named due to his profession). Not before long, I decided to stay there permanently (what a mistake!). I support the English football/soccer club Stockport Town, after formerly supporting Rochdale.

I joined Wikipedia (my only love!) on the 31st of January in 2014, after anonymously and frequently editing for many months. The main reason for becoming a Wikipedian had remained a mystery for many years, but in subsequent years I've realised that I joined to make albums, singles, footballers, and musicians mean more to me in digital words, mostly for myself, but if you find that helpful then I must be doing something (if anything) right! And the only advice that I can give to anyone is L.A.B.A.T.Y.D (an acronym for "Life's a Bitch and Then You Die", harsh but true or not, I guess that it depends on the actor.

My Motto is:
 * L.A.B.A.T.Y.D! You've Just Gotta Get Used to It and You'll Live a Happy Life (Or try to!) [[File:Pffffft.gif]]

Autograph collecting, and notable people that I've met
You may find that in the "Additional information" sections I have an autograph collection. My first ever autograph was Roger Daltrey's which I received via backstage security whom most kindly forwarded it to him. He dedicated it to myself, and told me to "Be Lucky" (as he does with most fans), but little did I know that he was going to record a song with this title as a single in 2014, with Pete Townshend as the Who (I also created a Wikipedia article for the song). Some of my other autographs were via fanmail (However, most of those I wrote to never got back to me. e.g. Paul McCartney, Don Henley, Glenn Frey (now R.I.P.), Sting, and Pete Townshend). The autographs that I acquired via fanmail were Joe Walsh's, and Phil Collins'. I got Alexander O'Neal's autographs via a friend, he signed a photograph, and copies of his studio albums, Alexander O'Neal (1985), Hearsay (1987), All True Man (1991), and Love Makes No Sense (1993), and I later met him randomly one day outside of a hotel in Manchester — he obviously didn't know who I was, and wasn't very nice.

I have personally met the current and former Rochdale players Stephen Dawson; Peter Vincenti; Ian Henderson; Rhys Bennett; Joe Bunney; Michael Rose, and Olly Lancashire, after seeing them play Scunthorpe United in March 2015. I met Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason backstage in 2018, and Dave Wakeling of the Beat after a concert in 2022. I also randomly met Morrissey of the Smiths at the Waitrose in Wilmslow, who was very strange to me in 2022...

2023 was a little more eventful (and tiring). I met Kate Bollinger, Suzanne Vega (who put me on the guest list to one of her concerts for the second time), Laura Evans (very rude for a nobody), Jez Kerr of A Certain Ratio (outside the venue before the first show that I saw by them), Valor Kand and Maitri of Christian Death, Nik Kershaw, Wreckless Eric, and Lucia Fairfull of Lucia & the Best Boys. I also tried to meet John Lydon after his Public Image Ltd concert in Manchester but he practically ignored me, and was rude to all but one person. I stopped listening to him significantly after that...

In 2024, I randomly met Will Mellor at the Queens pub in Bredbury, Stockport (where he was born, and raised), and also Tracy Tracy of the Primitives after a concert in Manchester.