Hi there...

This is my retro blog - you will need to imagine yourself back in 1956, 7 years old - swinging London was on a very distant horizon. Life was still in black and white.


In 1963 music would start to change everything, me included. I was 14 when I first saw the Beatles, a few months later John Lee Hooker and the Rolling Stones. It was relentless, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck. I could no longer remain in the audience, I had to do it too - first with Janis and  Holly (she was a drummer then, before she found her Italians), then Mother Superior (an all female band), the Video Kings, and Sharks with Snips and Chris Spedding. Read on if you're interested...