Musicians at your school
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If you were a musician in my school, you got beaten up.
I got beaten up, often.
Still, many of them ended up in prison, some ended up dead - and I ended up with a career.
...what goes around.
BTW The school was cited as the UK's most violent in a TV documentary some years later, and had to be closed, re-staffed and renamed.
I got beaten up, often.
Still, many of them ended up in prison, some ended up dead - and I ended up with a career.
...what goes around.
BTW The school was cited as the UK's most violent in a TV documentary some years later, and had to be closed, re-staffed and renamed.
I only found out about this a few years back, when I read a book on my old school (written by my old history teacher!) that Helen O'Hara, the violinist in Dexy's Midnight Runners, is a former pupil. She was a year or two below me, but wasn't calling herself O'Hara then so I never saw the connection.
Matt Letley, for many years the drummer with Status Quo, was one of my best mates at school.
I also remember teasing Nitin Sawhney at lunchtimes, he was a couple of years younger.
I'm pretty sure someone else famous also went there, maybe it'll come to me (Rochester Math).
Whilst still at school I used to jam with other mates at James JTQ Taylor's house.
Woman across the road from me when I was a nipper is Elton John's cousin.
I briefly dated a woman who lived off the royalties she received monthly from her divorce settlement - her ex played bass for a VERY famous 60s/70s band. He's no longer famous, lives as a recluse in another country.
And my cousin, who shall remain nameless, has had more top 40 hits than you could shake a stick at.
I frequently wish I'd pursued a career in music, I just wasn't confident enough.
I also remember teasing Nitin Sawhney at lunchtimes, he was a couple of years younger.
I'm pretty sure someone else famous also went there, maybe it'll come to me (Rochester Math).
Whilst still at school I used to jam with other mates at James JTQ Taylor's house.
Woman across the road from me when I was a nipper is Elton John's cousin.
I briefly dated a woman who lived off the royalties she received monthly from her divorce settlement - her ex played bass for a VERY famous 60s/70s band. He's no longer famous, lives as a recluse in another country.
And my cousin, who shall remain nameless, has had more top 40 hits than you could shake a stick at.
I frequently wish I'd pursued a career in music, I just wasn't confident enough.
t 90's boy band Worlds Apart. TheExcession said:
lockhart flawse said:
Jean Jaques Burnel and one of the Vapors.
That's ace, The Vapors are one of my all time great bands... News At Ten would be one of my Desert Island Disks.What was he like?
JJ Burnel was a bit older than me.
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