But the occasion of Ron Diggins' 90th birthday seemed the perfect opportunity to catch up with the Boston man who started the party all those years ago.
Ron, who lives at Wyberton Low Road, is the man widely credited with inventing the disco.
A true pioneer of his time, he founded the art of the disc jockey way back in the 1940s when he built the world's first custom-made DJ console, the Diggola.
"I've invented nothing," he was still insisting modestly last week. "I put the same things to a different use, that's all."
Lesley Wright, the editor of DJ Magazine, who ran a two-page spread about Ron a number of years ago entitled 'The First DJ', clearly disagrees: "Ron started it all," she said.
A professional radio engineer, in 1949 Ron hand-crafted his very own mobile sound system – complete with two record decks, sound mixer, lights, microphone, amplifier and 10 speakers – that had the crowds dancing at village halls up and down the county for almost half a century.
"When I started out, the ordinary village halls danced to live piano and drums – that's all," he said. "If it was something extra special, they'd have a violin as well."
Ron and his home-made Diggola quickly changed all that, introducing the concept of twin turntables and recorded music to enthusiastic crowds across Lincolnshire.
As demand grew, Ron eventually went on to build six more Diggolas and employ two extra DJs to keep up with the multiple bookings.
Copy-cat competition eventually began to spring up in the 1950s, but Ron's business continued to thrive, peaking in the heady days of 1969.
Ron, however, was not popular with everyone.
"I wasn't well liked by the musician's union," he said. "I was putting them out of a job. I used to get dozens of angry letters from them every day."
After meetings with union bosses Ron agreed to confine his work to smaller venues – and consequently never played at Boston's famous Gliderdrome.
But despite such archaic restrictions, Ron is reckoned to have played more than 20,000 parties before finally hanging up his headphones back in 1995 – comfortably making him the world's most experienced DJ.
And what does the great man think of today's millionaire superstar DJs, who earn up to £20,000 for a single night's work?
"I never knew how it would take off," he said, shaking his head. "The most I've ever charged is £50."

So how did a radio engineer from Boston come to invent the art of DJ-ing?
"I'd been playing background music and doing voice-overs out the back of my van at school sports days and the like," Ron explained.
"It was nothing to do with dancing – that was the last thing on my mind."
But all that changed one fateful day in September 1947, when he received a visit from the girls from the Swineshead Land Army.
"They were passing the office, saw the van and came in to ask if it could be used for dancing," Ron said.
"They were having a harvest supper with some of the Italian POWs. Well, I'd never thought of it before, but I didn't want to lose the booking – so I said I'd give it a go."
And so the future of music was changed forever.
Ron and his dancing tunes – "I played waltz and quick-step" – proved wildly popular, and two years later he was building his very own art deco-style mobile disco to disguise the tangle of wiring that accompanied those early shows.
"It took me about six weeks to build the first Diggola," he said.
"We couldn't get plywood in those days, so soon after the war. So I had to make it out of coffin boards."

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