One of the greatest joys of a cultured family life was not only having a father who loved his classical music (Mozart, Beethoven Mahler etc) who read out loud to us fiction dn Peter (Dickens and Dylan Thomas etc) (there weren’t televisions then!) and mother who adored dance band music of the time (Gnat Gonella, Al Bowly Bix Biederbeck etc) but having an older brother. My big brother Steve brought several revolutionary sounds into the house (not least Bobby Dylan) and I vividly remember him having Lonnie Donegan (MY Old Man’s A Dustman, Does your Chewing Gum Lose it’s Falovour (on the Bed Post over night!) Rock Island Line) and also American music and he got hold of Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran and my earliest merry a 78 of these guys! I was gone, man SOLID GONE!
Been a rockin’ around the clock ever since!
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