Early Years
He went to both an independent prep school, Durston House in Ealing, and to a state primary school at Perivale. Then to both a grammar school (Harrow County, later attended by Michael Portillo) and to an independent secondary school (Bryanston in Dorset). At Bryanston he formed the school’s first jazz band, much frowned on by the authorities. When he left school at the age of seventeen it was with the idea of becoming a professional musician, preferably in America. A year later, unable to get a visa for the States, he emigrated to Canada but after working as a musician for two years he decided he wanted to do something different. He spent a year hitch-hiking across America.
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