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I fondly remember music on the radio from childhood. I loved story songs like Tommy Steele’s ‘Little White Bull’ and ‘The Whistling Gypsy’ and other popular folk songs of the time. One minute, alt- hough I fear to say this, I was happily listening to ‘Wonderful Land’ by The Shadows and the next all existing music known to me was swept aside by the incredible Beatles.


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overwhelmed by my personal emotional tsunami. I had been taken into care in Liverpool as an infant alongside my four sis- ters and a brother. At 18 I found myself living a one room life.


When did you first start playing and writing music? I first played in a duo called She- riff and then in the early 1970‘s I formed an acoustic-based band, Ulysses. A song written by me from this period, ‘See me


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through’, has since been resur- rected and appeared on my debut albums in 2000/01. Like a great many, I was lear- ning to play guitar and sing in the wake of Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Buffalo Springfield and Neil Young, James Taylor and Cat Stevens, my dream was to be successful like them.


Did you enjoy any success? Not at all. The band rehearsed several times a week in a Chor- ley Methodist Hall but we quic- kly broke up when our drummer joined a cult ‘The Divine Light’ and in reality none of us could


be easy!


afford the PA rental. Music was on the back seat as I became a trainee accountant to earn a li- ving. Even so, in that period I was able to personally meet Cat Stevens when I engineered the chance to interview with him alongside a press photographer friend after a gig in his early comeback period. Cat Steven’s bassist at the time, Larry Steele, subsequently invited me to gigs in Manchester and London, Dru- ry Lane and so I was able to en- joy further encounters with Cat Stevens. I even got to play on his Everly Gibson when he showed me a chord I didn’t know at the time that was in the song ‘Into White’ (Tea for the Tillerman)


Whose music were you listening to at the time?


In the 60‘s and 70‘s, After the Goldrush, Neil Young (I always loved his falsetto voice and his Buffalo Springfield songs)


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