Moving quickly on from the devastating crash that nearly killed him Hammond ranges widely over his life and times a visit to Glastonbury with James May reminds of him of his early years of playing in a band and how and why he never quite made it as a rock star the stunts and other perils that come his way like the TopGear North Pole race, Africa where he falls in love with and repatriates a stray car, and the US (once to be chased by Rednecks in middle America, the other in pursuit of his mad hero Evel Knievel) his passion for cars, what he owns and why and although he loves his wife why it is a toss-up whether he says hello to the wife or the cars first Balancing home and family with a crazy, peripatetic working life (or not, sometimes), the hamster is well and truly back on the wheel