![]() He caned me when I was about 5 years old. Our Headmaster was supposedly the inspiration for Albus Dumbledore. She was the most famous ex-pupil I am on the list as well. When JK Rowling became famous, it became known that she went to the same Junior School as me. There is wild speculation in the book that JK Rowling based Harry Potter on you. “Yeah, I’ve been away.” Where’ve you been?” “Pucklechurch.” It’s a prison in Bristol. I saw him a few years ago at a wedding: “I haven’t seen you in a while,” I said. In fact, I’ve tried to be the Black Sheep myself, although I’ve got a cousin who’s been in and out of prison a few times. I only met him once or twice before he died. There’s always a black sheep in large families - in your case, your Welsh granddad. There was a lot of support and love – and there still is in the family. They couldn’t afford a Fender Telecaster, but they got me an Audition guitar from Woolworth’s. We had a sledge and a go-cart that dad made. We weren’t comfortable, but I wouldn’t say deprived. Real butter is a treat in Salad Daze and you had to wear extra clothes rather than your parents putting the heating on during the bitterly cold long winter of 1962/3. Would you describe your upbringing as working class and poor, but not deprived. ![]() I don’t think it’s left me with any great traumas or problems later in life, like it seems to do for other people. I look back, and despite the circumstances of my birth, I think of my childhood as being a really pleasant time. Are you still nostalgic about your deeply British, 1960s childhood? I let Tim Palmer (producer of several Mission albums) read the book and he was messaging me every day: “I remember Stingray” or whatever.Īlso the more sinister social history is in there too: TB and Mother and Baby Homes, for example. I’m not going to write a book geared towards an age group that don’t know who I am and I like reading about historical context in other books. #Deminion key wizards lizard full#The early part of the book is also full of things that only a person of a certain age can fully appreciate: top-flight footballers who have fish fingers for dinner corporal punishment in schools, Ron Ely as Tarzan, the subtle class divisions between Pontin’s and Butlin’s. I’ve never really had that curiosity, other then when my second daughter was born and my wife at the time was asking me about it. I looked him up online – I didn’t want to track him down or meet him – and as far as I can ascertain he died in 1991, so I wouldn’t have been able to get in touch with him anyway. “That’s the day I told your Nanny Lovelock it was the day she received a letter from me telling her I was pregnant.”Īnd that’s when she told me stuff she hadn’t told me before she told me my father’s name, that he was from L.A., that he had been in the services in England, that he never knew she was pregnant and that he had a son. It was one Easter about 5 years ago when my parents were over in Brazil – they had the property next door to where I live in the countryside. You remember don’t you, the wedding? Your dad adopted you.” They didn’t keep it a secret, but at the age of four you don’t retain many memories.īut it was only then that I found out that my dad wasn’t my real dad, but I do have a hazy memory of there not being any men in my life when I was very young kid.ĭid you ever try to get in contact with you birth father? My parents came down to the church: “Wayne, we never kept that a secret from you. When I was about 10 or 11, I was at church one night playing a board game with the secretary of the church branch and he said to me, “So when did your parents tell you, you were adopted?” “What?!” I was in tears. So I interviewed my Mum I’ll always have the recording of that. But when I had almost finished writing the book, I thought, “You know, a lot of who I am and what I became and the way I’ve lived my life is probably a lot to do with my very early life.” I went to my mum and dad and asked them, “Would you mind, if I put this in the book?” They talked about it and said, “You know what, we’re 80 years old now, it’s fine.” I’ve not brought it up in interviews ever out of respect for them. My parents have not wanted it well known. ![]() You decided to write openly about your family history for the first time – why? ![]()
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