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PAST LIVES The history is told;
Born;
Summer Of Love; Silence Is Golden; Round The Horne; Goon but not forgotten; Sgt Pepper is a week away.
Growing up;
Wollaston; Victorian village; Victorian Morals; Victorian Manners; blessed idyllic; fields and fields and fields and jumpers for goalposts; family; local club sport; local main schools
Adolescence;
in love all the time; out of reach; school prizes and head boy; out of here at the first chance
College;
Loughborough; jocks and engineers; historian; chief socialite; first love; people, then sport, then degree
Work;
to London; Dick Whittington; soon home, cat’s tale between legs; made it back; made it big in a small way; All Woman; number one album; gold disc
Music;
a party; a gig on the patio; a drummer; a desire; Cliff Rescue and The Helicopters; four years; hundreds of pubs; three sessions; plate wobbling; drummer’s emigration
Recordings;
Trenant bass player; accordion fetish; Guildford pubs and demo sessions; living the life as glorious amateurs; then to Alaska Street; Alaska again; “there’s no explaining that”; thanks Johnny; two albums later The Grape are history
Work again;
new company; new designs; new catalogue; this time it’s ours; 1,000s of releases; and now our own stuff; start commissioning and producing and executive producing; far out!
New recordings;
Mickey Simmonds; un-Fished, un-Oldfielded; constant fight took 4 years in 2 months; Percy Studios in Wollaston; two more albums and here we all are!!!!!!!!